Development of a Multilingual Parallel Corpus and a Part-of-Speech Tagger for Afrikaans
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This paper describes design and creation of a multilingual parallel corpus for South African languages. One of the applications of the corpus, namely, the induction of a part-of-speech tagger for Afrikaans from the data, is presented in the paper. Development of the Afrikaans part-of-speech tagger is based on a modified method for induction of linguistic tools from parallel corpora originally proposed by Yarowsky and Ngai (2001).
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تاریخ انتشار 2006