Tagging Amazigh with AnCoraPipe
Mohamed Outahajala, Lahbib Zekouar, Paolo Rosso, Maria Antònia Martí, Allal El Fassi, Madinat Al Irfane · 2010
Over the last few years, Moroccan society has known a lot of debate about the Amazigh language and culture. The creation of a new governmental institution, namely IRCAM, has made it possible for the Amazigh language and culture to reclaim their rightful place in many domains. Taking into consideration the situation of the Amazigh language which needs more tools and scientific work to achieve its automatic processing, the aim of this paper is to present the Amazigh language features for a morphology annotation purpose. Put in another way, the paper is meant to address the issue of Amazigh’s tagging with the multilevel annotation tool AnCoraPipe. This tool is adapted to use a specific tagset to annotate Amazigh corpora with a new defined writing system. This step may well be viewed as the first step for an automatic processing of the Amazigh language; the main aim at very beginning being to achieve a part of speech tagger.