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Tagging a Hebrew Corpus: the Case of Participles

Year: 2008
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: We report on an effort to build a corpus of Modern Hebrew tagged with parts of speech and morphology.We designed a tagset specific to Hebrew while focusing on four aspects: the tagset should be consistent with common linguistic knowledge; there should be maximal agreement among taggers as to the tags assigned to maintain consistency; the tagset should be useful for machine taggers and learning algorithms; and the tagset should be effective for applications relying on the tags as input features.In this paper, we illustrate these issues by explaining our decision to introduce a tag for beinoni forms in Hebrew.We explain how this tag is defined, and how it helped us improve manual tagging accuracy to a high-level, while improving automatic tagging and helping in the task of syntactic chunking.
Language: English
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W25524800
FWCI: 0.248
Cites: 10
Cited by: 11
Related to: 20