Parsing for Mauritian Creole using Universal Dependencies

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Parsing for Mauritian Creole using Universal Dependencies

Original language description

This paper presents a first attempt to apply Universal Dependencies (De Marneffe et al., 2021) to train a parser for Mauritian Creole (MC), a French-based Creole language spoken on the island of Mauritius. This paper demonstrates the construction of a 161-sentence (1007-token) treebank for MC and evaluates the performance of a part-of-speech tagger and Universal Dependencies parser trained on this data. The sentences were collected from publicly available grammar books (Syea, 2013) and online resources (Baker and Kriegel, 2013), as well as from government-produced school textbooks (Antonio-Françoise et al., 2021; Natchoo et al., 2017). The parser, trained with UDPipe 2 (Straka, 2018), reached F1 scores of UPOS=86.2, UAS=80.8 and LAS=69.8. This fares favorably when compared to models of similar size for other under-resourced Indigenous and Creole languages. We then address some of the challenges faced when applying UD to Creole languages in general and to Mauritian Creole in particular. The main challenge was the handling of spelling variation in the input. Other issues include the tagging of modal verbs, middle voice sentences, and parts of the tense-aspect-mood system (such as the particle fek). © 2024 ELRA Language Resource Association: CC BY-NC 4.0.

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

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Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Jt. Int. Conf. Comput. Linguist., Lang. Resour. Eval., LREC-COLING - Main Conf. Proc.

ISBN

978-249381410-4

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Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

12622-12632

Publisher name

European Language Resources Association (ELRA)

Place of publication

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Event location

Torino, Italia

Event date

Jan 1, 2025

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

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