Building a Social Media Adapted PoS Tagger Using FlexTag – A Case Study on Italian Tweets
Tobias Horsmann, Torsten Zesch · Accademia University Press eBooks · 2016
We present a detailed description of our submission to the PoSTWITA shared-task for PoS tagging of Italian social media text. We train a model based on FlexTag using only the provided training data and external resources like word clusters and a PoS dictionary which are build from publicly available Italian corpora. We find that this minimal adaptation strategy, which already worked well for German social media data, is also highly effective for Italian.