Using machine learning techniques to build a comma checker for Basque

Iñaki Alegria, Bertol Arrieta, Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza, Eli Izagirre, Montse Maritxalar · 2006

In this paper, we describe the research using machine learning techniques to build a comma checker to be integrated in a grammar checker for Basque. After several experiments, and trained with a little corpus of 100,000 words, the system guesses correctly not placing commas with a precision of 96% and a recall of 98%. It also gets a precision of 70% and a recall of 49% in the task of placing commas. Finally, we have shown that these results can be improved using a bigger and a more homogeneous corpus to train, that is, a bigger corpus written by one unique author.

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