Wilbert Heeringa, Gosse Bouma, Martha Hofman, Jelle Brouwer, Eduard Drenth, Jan Wijffels, Hans Van de Velde
| Challenge: | a lemmatizer/PoS tagger/dependency parser for west frisian is released as a web app and as . web service. |
| Approach: | They propose a lemmatizer/PoS tagger/dependency parser for West Frisian using a corpus of 44,714 words in 3,126 sentences that were annotated according to the guidelines of Universal Dependencies version 2. |
| Outcome: | The proposed lemmatizer/PoS tagger/dependency parser performs better than the previous version of Oersetter . the current corpus contains 44,714 words in 3,126 sentences . |
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