Developing the old Tibetan treebank
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Publication Date
2019-01-01Journal Title
International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP
ISSN
1313-8502
ISBN
9789544520557
Volume
2019-September
Pages
304-312
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Conference Object
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Faggionato, C., & Meelen, M. (2019). Developing the old Tibetan treebank. International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP, 2019-September 304-312. https://doi.org/10.26615/978-954-452-056-4_035
Abstract
This paper presents a full procedure for the development of a segmented, POS-tagged and chunk-parsed corpus of Old Tibetan. As an extremely low-resource language, Old Tibetan poses non-trivial problems in every step towards the development of a searchable treebank. We demonstrate, however, that a carefully developed, semi-supervised method of optimising and extending existing tools for Classical Tibetan, as well as creating specific ones for Old Tibetan, can address these issues. We thus also present the very first Tibetan Treebank in a variety of formats to facilitate research in the fields of NLP, historical linguistics and Tibetan Studies.
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.26615/978-954-452-056-4_035
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/302933
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