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Introducing a Gold Standard Corpus from Young Multilinguals for the Evaluation of Automatic UD-PoS Taggers for Italian

SCHMALZ, Verena; Jennifer-Carmen FREY and Egon STEMLE

Basic information

Original name

Introducing a Gold Standard Corpus from Young Multilinguals for the Evaluation of Automatic UD-PoS Taggers for Italian

Authors

SCHMALZ, Verena; Jennifer-Carmen FREY and Egon STEMLE

Edition

Milan, Italy, 8th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, CLiC-it 2021, p. 1-7, 7 pp. 2021

Publisher

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Proceedings paper

Country of publisher

Italy

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

Publication form

electronic version available online

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URL

Marked to be transferred to RIV

Yes

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14330/21:00125291

Organization

Fakulta informatiky – Repository – Repository

ISSN

EID Scopus

2-s2.0-85121223452

Keywords in English

PoS tagging; automatic evaluation
Changed: 7/4/2023 04:30, RNDr. Daniel Jakubík

Abstract

In the original language

Part-of-speech (PoS) tagging constitutes a common task in Natural Language Processing (NLP), given its widespread applicability. However, with the advance of new information technologies and language variation, the contents and methods for PoS-tagging have changed. The majority of Italian existing data for this task originate from standard texts, where language use is far from multifaceted informal real-life situations. Automatic PoS-tagging models trained with such data do not perform reliably on non-standard language, like social media content or language learners’ texts. Our aim is to provide additional training and evaluation data from language learners tagged in Universal Dependencies (UD), as well as testing current automatic PoStagging systems and evaluating their performance on such data. We use a multilingual corpus of young language learners, LEONIDE, to create a tagged gold standard for evaluating UD PoStagging performance on the Italian nonstandard language. With the 3.7 version of Stanza, a Python NLP package, we apply available automatic PoS-taggers, namely ISDT, ParTUT, POSTWITA, TWITTIRÒ and VIT, trained with both standard and non-standard data, on our dataset. Our results show that the above taggers, trained on non-standard data or multilingual Treebanks, can achieve up to 95% of accuracy on multilingual learner data, if combined.
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