TwittIrish: a universal dependencies treebank of Tweets in modern Irish
Cassidy, Lauren, Lynn, Teresa, Barry, James and Foster, JenniferORCID: 0000-0002-7789-4853
(2022)
TwittIrish: a universal dependencies treebank of Tweets in modern Irish.
In: 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 22-27 May 2022, Dublin, Ireland.
Modern Irish is a minority language lacking sufficient computational resources for the task of accurate automatic syntactic parsing of user-generated content such as tweets. Although language technology for the Irish language has been developing in recent years, these tools tend to perform poorly on user-generated content. As with other languages, the linguistic style observed in Irish tweets differs, in terms of orthography, lexicon, and syntax, from that of standard texts more commonly used for the development of language models and parsers. We release the first Universal Dependencies treebank of Irish tweets, facilitating natural language processing of user-generated content in Irish. In this paper, we explore the differences between Irish tweets and standard Irish text, and the challenges associated with dependency parsing of Irish tweets. We describe our bootstrapping method of treebank development and report on preliminary parsing experiments.
Irish Government Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under the GaelTech Projec, Science Foundation Ireland in the ADAPT Centre (Grant No. 13/RC/2106) at Dublin City University.
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Jennifer Foster
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