Development of a Multilingual Parallel Corpus and a Part-of-Speech Tagger for Afrikaans
Julia S. Trushkina · 2007
This paper describes design and creation of a multilingual parallel corpus for South African languages. One of the applications of the corpus, namely, the induction of a part-of-speech tagger for Afrikaans from the data, is presented in the paper. Development of the Afrikaans part-of-speech tagger is based on a modified method for induction of linguistic tools from parallel corpora originally proposed by Yarowsky and Ngai (2001).