Learning a POS tagger for AAVE-like language

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POS taggers trained on newswire perform much worse on domains such as subtitles, lyrics, and tweets. In addition, these domains are very heterogeneous, and it is not clear what data to annotate to learn a POS tagger for subtitles, for example. In this paper we consider the problem of learning a POS tagger for subtitles, lyrics, and tweets associated with African-American Vernacular English from a previously released and manually annotated Twitter corpus. Our approach is to learn from a mixture of this data and unlabeled data, which was automatically and partially labeled using mined tag dictionaries. Our POS tagger obtains a tagging accuracy of 89% on subtitles, 85% on lyrics, and 83% on tweets, with up to 55% error reductions over a state-of-the-art newswire POS tagger, and 15-25% error reductions over a state-of-the-art Twitter POS tagger.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelProceedings of NAACL-HLT 2016
Antal sider6
ForlagAssociation for Computational Linguistics
Publikationsdato2016
Sider1115-1120
ISBN (Elektronisk)ISBN 978-1-941643-91-4
StatusUdgivet - 2016
BegivenhedNAACL - San Diego, San Diego, USA
Varighed: 12 jun. 201617 jun. 2016

Konference

KonferenceNAACL
LokationSan Diego
LandUSA
BySan Diego
Periode12/06/201617/06/2016

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