Character N-Gram Features for Kazakh POS Tagging Under Strict OOV Evaluation
Year: 2026
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: We present a compact ablation study for Kazakh part-of-speech (POS) tagging under a strict out-of-vocabulary (OOV) protocol. From the NLA-NU Kazakh Dependency Tree-bank (kdt-NLANU, 934,640 tokens), we build a deduplicated benchmark of 48,277 unique word-Universal part-of-speech (UPOS) pairs and split by word form, ensuring zero train-test form overlap. A central processing unit (CPU)-only logistic regression (LR) model using character n-grams and lightweight contextual features reaches 87.13% accuracy and a 0.569 macro-averaged F1 score (macro-F1) on a 13-class OOV test set. The ablation shows that the saga solver, character unigrams, and class filtering are more reliable than standard balanced class weighting, which fails when classes have fewer than about ten instances. We also report a transformer reference point, but mark it as non-comparable because it uses a sentence-level split rather than the OOV protocol.
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7224829060