Fast Development of Basic NLP Tools: Towards a Lexicon and a POS Tagger for Kurmanji Kurdish

Géraldine Walther (1) , Benoît Sagot (2) , Karen Fort (3)

1 LLF UMR7110 - Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle
2 ALPAGE - Analyse Linguistique Profonde à Grande Echelle ; Large-scale deep linguistic processing
3 INIST - Institut de l'information scientifique et technique

The development of basic NLP resources for minority languages is still a challenge to both formal and computational linguists. In this paper, we show how we were able to develop a medium-scale morphological lexicon for Kurmanji Kurdish in a few days time using only freely accessible resources. We also developed a preliminary POS tagger that shall be used as a pre-annotation tool for developing a POS-annotated corpus, based solely on raw text and on our morphological lexicon.

Domaines: Traitement du texte et du document; Linguistique

Géraldine Walther, Benoît Sagot, Karen Fort. Fast Development of Basic NLP Tools: Towards a Lexicon and a POS Tagger for Kurmanji Kurdish. International Conference on Lexis and Grammar, Sep 2010, Belgrade, Serbia. ⟨hal-00510999⟩