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Bootstrapping the Development of an HPSG-based Treebank for Persian

@article{Ghayoomi2012BootstrappingTD,
  title={Bootstrapping the Development of an HPSG-based Treebank for Persian},
  author={Masood Ghayoomi},
  journal={Linguistic Issues in Language Technology},
  year={2012},
  volume={7}
}
  • Masood Ghayoomi
  • Published 6 January 2012
  • Computer Science
  • Linguistic Issues in Language Technology
In this paper, we describe an ongoing research to develop an HPSG- based treebank for Persian. To this aim, we use a bootstrapping ap- proach for the data annotation. In the first step, a set of seed rules are defined as regular expressions in the CLaRK system. Then, the data is shallow processed with this set of rules. In the next step, a human annotator completes the annotation of sentences manually. To increase automatic annotation, we extract the manual applied rules and iteratively augment… 
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