A Constraint Grammar POS-Tagger for Tibetan

Garrett, Edward; Hill, Nathan W.

Abstract

This paper describes a rule-based part-of speech tagger for Tibetan, implemented in Constraint Grammar and with rules operating over sequences of syllables rather than words.

Citation

Garrett, E., & Hill, N. W. (2015). A Constraint Grammar POS-Tagger for Tibetan. In E. Bick, & K. Hagen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on “Constraint Grammar - methods, tools and applications” at NODALIDA 2015, May 11-13, 2015 (19-22). Institute of the Lithuanian Language

• Acceptance Date: Mar 28, 2015
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2015
• Deposit Date: Jul 19, 2015
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 3, 2025
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 19-22
• Book Title: Proceedings of the Workshop on “Constraint Grammar - methods, tools and applications” at NODALIDA 2015, May 11-13, 2015
• ISBN: 9789175190372
• Keywords: Constraint grammar, Tibetan, POS-tagging, Corpus Linguistics
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