Machine Learning and Deep Neural Network-Based Lemmatization and Morphosyntactic Tagging for Serbian

Ranka Stankovic, Branislava Šandrih, Cvetana Krstev, Miloš Utvić, Mihailo Skoric


Abstract
The training of new tagger models for Serbian is primarily motivated by the enhancement of the existing tagset with the grammatical category of a gender. The harmonization of resources that were manually annotated within different projects over a long period of time was an important task, enabled by the development of tools that support partial automation. The supporting tools take into account different taggers and tagsets. This paper focuses on TreeTagger and spaCy taggers, and the annotation schema alignment between Serbian morphological dictionaries, MULTEXT-East and Universal Part-of-Speech tagset. The trained models will be used to publish the new version of the Corpus of Contemporary Serbian as well as the Serbian literary corpus. The performance of developed taggers were compared and the impact of training set size was investigated, which resulted in around 98% PoS-tagging precision per token for both new models. The sr_basic annotated dataset will also be published.
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2020.lrec-1.487
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Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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May
Year:
2020
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Marseille, France
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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European Language Resources Association
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3954–3962
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English
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Ranka Stankovic, Branislava Šandrih, Cvetana Krstev, Miloš Utvić, and Mihailo Skoric. 2020. Machine Learning and Deep Neural Network-Based Lemmatization and Morphosyntactic Tagging for Serbian. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 3954–3962, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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Machine Learning and Deep Neural Network-Based Lemmatization and Morphosyntactic Tagging for Serbian (Stankovic et al., LREC 2020)
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