Reliable Part-of-Speech Tagging of Historical Corpora through Set-Valued Prediction

S.H. Heid, M.D. Wever, E. Hüllermeier, Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities (n.d.).

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Syntactic annotation of corpora in the form of part-of-speech (POS) tags is a key requirement for both linguistic research and subsequent automated natural language processing (NLP) tasks. This problem is commonly tackled using machine learning methods, i.e., by training a POS tagger on a sufficiently large corpus of labeled data. While the problem of POS tagging can essentially be considered as solved for modern languages, historical corpora turn out to be much more difficult, especially due to the lack of native speakers and sparsity of training data. Moreover, most texts have no sentences as we know them today, nor a common orthography. These irregularities render the task of automated POS tagging more difficult and error-prone. Under these circumstances, instead of forcing the POS tagger to predict and commit to a single tag, it should be enabled to express its uncertainty. In this paper, we consider POS tagging within the framework of set-valued prediction, which allows the POS tagger to express its uncertainty via predicting a set of candidate POS tags instead of guessing a single one. The goal is to guarantee a high confidence that the correct POS tag is included while keeping the number of candidates small. In our experimental study, we find that extending state-of-the-art POS taggers to set-valued prediction yields more precise and robust taggings, especially for unknown words, i.e., words not occurring in the training data.
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Heid SH, Wever MD, Hüllermeier E. Reliable Part-of-Speech Tagging of Historical Corpora through Set-Valued Prediction. Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities.
Heid, S. H., Wever, M. D., & Hüllermeier, E. (n.d.). Reliable Part-of-Speech Tagging of Historical Corpora through Set-Valued Prediction. In Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities. episciences.
@article{Heid_Wever_Hüllermeier, title={Reliable Part-of-Speech Tagging of Historical Corpora through Set-Valued Prediction}, journal={Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities}, publisher={episciences}, author={Heid, Stefan Helmut and Wever, Marcel Dominik and Hüllermeier, Eyke} }
Heid, Stefan Helmut, Marcel Dominik Wever, and Eyke Hüllermeier. “Reliable Part-of-Speech Tagging of Historical Corpora through Set-Valued Prediction.” Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities. episciences, n.d.
S. H. Heid, M. D. Wever, and E. Hüllermeier, “Reliable Part-of-Speech Tagging of Historical Corpora through Set-Valued Prediction,” Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities. episciences.
Heid, Stefan Helmut, et al. “Reliable Part-of-Speech Tagging of Historical Corpora through Set-Valued Prediction.” Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities, episciences.
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