A Constraint Grammar POS-Tagger for Tibetan
Edward Garrett, Nathan Wayne Hill · SOAS Research Online (SOAS University of London) · 2015
This paper describes a rule-based part-of-speech tagger for Tibetan which has been implemented using Constraint Grammar. The tagger resulted from translating an existing Tibetan part-of-speech tagger implemented using regular expressions. The advantages of the CG tagger over the regular expressions tagger advocate for further uses of CG within Tibetan NLP. The paper ends by considering the possible application of CG to the hard problem of Tibetan word segmentation. 1 A Regular Expressions Tagger Garrett et al. (2014) describe a rule-based tagger