A Cross-lingual Part-of-Speech Tagging for Malay Language

Norshuhani Zamin, Zainab Abu Bakar

2015

Abstract

Cross-lingual annotation projection methods can benefit from rich-resourced languages to improve the performance of Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks in less-resourced languages. In this research, Malay is experimented as the less-resourced language and English is experimented as the rich-resourced language. The research is proposed to reduce the deadlock in Malay computational linguistic research due to the shortage of Malay tools and annotated corpus by exploiting state-of-the-art English tools. This paper proposed a cross-lingual annotation projection based on word alignment of two languages with syntactical differences. A word alignment method known as MEWA (Malay-English Word Aligner) that integrates a Dice Coefficient and bigram string similarity measure is proposed. MEWA is experimented to automatically induced annotations using a Malay test collection on terrorism and an identified English tool. In the POS annotation projection experiment, the algorithm achieved accuracy rate of 79%.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Zamin N. and Abu Bakar Z. (2015). A Cross-lingual Part-of-Speech Tagging for Malay Language . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-758-074-1, pages 232-240. DOI: 10.5220/0005150602320240

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart15,
author={Norshuhani Zamin and Zainab Abu Bakar},
title={A Cross-lingual Part-of-Speech Tagging for Malay Language},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,},
year={2015},
pages={232-240},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005150602320240},
isbn={978-989-758-074-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,
TI - A Cross-lingual Part-of-Speech Tagging for Malay Language
SN - 978-989-758-074-1
AU - Zamin N.
AU - Abu Bakar Z.
PY - 2015
SP - 232
EP - 240
DO - 10.5220/0005150602320240