A Rule-based Part-of-speech Tagger for Classical Tibetan

Garrett, Edward; Hill, Nathan W.; Zadoks, Abel

Abstract

This paper reports on the development of a rule-based part-of-speech tagger for Classical Tibetan. Far from being an obscure tool of minor utility to scholars, the rule-based tagger is a key component of a larger initiative aimed at radically transforming the practice of Tibetan linguistics through the application of corpus and computational methods.

Citation

Garrett, E., Hill, N. W., & Zadoks, A. (2014). A Rule-based Part-of-speech Tagger for Classical Tibetan. Himalayan linguistics, 13(2), 9-57. https://doi.org/10.5070/H913224023

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2014
• Deposit Date: Dec 27, 2014
• Publicly Available Date: May 12, 2017
• Journal: Himalayan Linguistics
• Electronic ISSN: 1544-7502
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 9-57
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5070/H913224023
• Publisher URL: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/5jv3r0rn
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