A comparison of features for POS tagging in Kannada

  • Authors

    • Shriya Atmakuri Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal
    • Bhavya Shahi Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal
    • Ashwath Rao B Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal
    • Muralikrishna S N Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal
    2018-09-19
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.14900
  • Conditional Random Field, Indian languages, Kannada, Natural Language Processing, POS tagging

  • Abstract

    This paper proposes a system of part of speech tagging for the South Indian language Kannada using supervised machine learning. POS tagging is an important step in Natural Language Processing and has varied applications such as word sense disambiguation, natural language understanding etc. Based on extensive research into methods used for POS tagging, Conditional Random fields have been chosen as our algorithm. CRFs are used for sequence modeling in POS tagging, named entity recognition and as an alternative to Hidden Markov Models. Three very large corpora are used and their results are compared. The feature sets for all three corpora are also varied. The best method for the task is determined using these results.

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    Atmakuri, S., Shahi, B., Rao B, A., & S N, M. (2018). A comparison of features for POS tagging in Kannada. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(4), 2418-2421. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.14900

    Received date: 2018-07-02

    Accepted date: 2018-08-25

    Published date: 2018-09-19