Toward a Lightweight Solution for Less-resourced Languages: Creating a POS Tagger for Alsatian Using Voluntary Crowdsourcing (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | Using a crowdsourcing platform, we collected 18,917 annotations for a less-resourced French regional language, Alsatian. |
| Approach: | They developed a platform that allows people to gather part-of-speech annotations on a variety of corpora and train a first tagger specific to Alsatian. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method is valid for Alsatian and can be adapted to other languages. |
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