%0 Conference Paper %1 Gamback:2009:MAP:1564508.1564527 %A Gambäck, Björn %A Olsson, Fredrik %A Argaw, Atelach Alemu %A Asker, Lars %B Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages %C Stroudsburg, PA, USA %D 2009 %I Association for Computational Linguistics %K POS-tagging amharic ethiopic %P 104--111 %T Methods for Amharic Part-of-speech Tagging %U http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1564508.1564527 %X The paper describes a set of experiments involving the application of three state-of-the-art part-of-speech taggers to Ethiopian Amharic, using three different tagsets. The taggers showed worse performance than previously reported results for English, in particular having problems with unknown words. The best results were obtained using a Maximum Entropy approach, while HMM-based and SVM-based taggers got comparable results. %@ 1-932432-25-6

@inproceedings{Gamback:2009:MAP:1564508.1564527, abstract = {The paper describes a set of experiments involving the application of three state-of-the-art part-of-speech taggers to Ethiopian Amharic, using three different tagsets. The taggers showed worse performance than previously reported results for English, in particular having problems with unknown words. The best results were obtained using a Maximum Entropy approach, while HMM-based and SVM-based taggers got comparable results.}, acmid = {1564527}, added-at = {2018-02-26T10:02:43.000+0100}, address = {Stroudsburg, PA, USA}, author = {Gamb\"{a}ck, Bj\"{o}rn and Olsson, Fredrik and Argaw, Atelach Alemu and Asker, Lars}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/218978fdc9b4f3fdbf1a9650463e20624/asmelash}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages}, description = {Methods for Amharic part-of-speech tagging}, interhash = {a1a8c35b52749fd43c26424d790c56c2}, intrahash = {18978fdc9b4f3fdbf1a9650463e20624}, isbn = {1-932432-25-6}, keywords = {POS-tagging amharic ethiopic}, location = {Athens, Greece}, numpages = {8}, pages = {104--111}, publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}, series = {AfLaT '09}, timestamp = {2018-02-26T10:02:43.000+0100}, title = {Methods for Amharic Part-of-speech Tagging}, url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1564508.1564527}, year = 2009 }