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Towards a part-of-speech tagger for Sranan Tongo

Nicolás Cortegoso Vissio    
Viktor Zakharov    

Resumen

This paper is the continuation of a work submitted to the International Conference Corpus Linguistics 2021 [1]. On that occasion, a rule-based stochastic hybrid part-of-speech tagger (POS) was introduced for Sranan Tongo, a Creole language from South America with around half a million speakers. Since Sranan Tongo does not have a written corpus and text annotation is an expensive and time-consuming task, it was proposed to take a first step in training a POS tagger using only 550 hand-annotated sentences with part of speech tags.In this new contribution, the development of the POS tagger for Sranan Tongo goes a step further with the addition of more training data. For this matter, the tagger was used to annotate 2,406 sentences. The tagging results were hand-corrected and employed to retrain the model. A comparison is shown between the performance of the POS tagger on three texts before and after the inclusion of the new training data.

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