{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/part-of-speech-tagging-on-an-endangered","title":"Part-of-Speech Tagging on an Endangered Language: a Parallel Griko-Italian Resource","arxiv_id":"1806.03757","date":"2018-06-11","proceeding":"COLING 2018 8","authors":["Antonis Anastasopoulos","Marika Lekakou","Josep Quer","Eleni Zimianiti","Justin DeBenedetto","David Chiang"],"abstract":"Most work on part-of-speech (POS) tagging is focused on high resource\nlanguages, or examines low-resource and active learning settings through\nsimulated studies. We evaluate POS tagging techniques on an actual endangered\nlanguage, Griko. We present a resource that contains 114 narratives in Griko,\nalong with sentence-level translations in Italian, and provides gold\nannotations for the test set. Based on a previously collected small corpus, we\ninvestigate several traditional methods, as well as methods that take advantage\nof monolingual data or project cross-lingual POS tags. We show that the\ncombination of a semi-supervised method with cross-lingual transfer is more\nappropriate for this extremely challenging setting, with the best tagger\nachieving an accuracy of 72.9%. With an applied active learning scheme, which\nwe use to collect sentence-level annotations over the test set, we achieve\nimprovements of more than 21 percentage points.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1806.03757v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.03757v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"part-of-speech-tagging-on-an-endangered","repo_url":"https://bitbucket.org/antonis/grikoresource","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"active-learning","task_name":"Active Learning"},{"task_slug":"cross-lingual-transfer","task_name":"Cross-Lingual Transfer"},{"task_slug":"pos","task_name":"POS"},{"task_slug":"pos-tagging","task_name":"POS Tagging"},{"task_slug":"part-of-speech-tagging","task_name":"Part-Of-Speech Tagging"},{"task_slug":"sentence","task_name":"Sentence"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1806.03757","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}