Methods for Amharic Part-of-Speech Tagging

EACL 2009 - Proceedings of the EACL 2009 Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages, AfLaT 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 104-111

  Gambäck, Björn ^a,b   Olsson, Fredrik ^a   Argaw, Atelach Alemu ^c   Asker, Lars ^c  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Sweden)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HMM-BASED; MAXIMUM-ENTROPY APPROACHES; PART OF SPEECH TAGGING; PART-OF-SPEECH TAGGER; PARTS-OF-SPEECH TAGGING; PERFORMANCE; STATE OF THE ART;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 79956094617     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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