[Corpora-List] Processing Latin texts

Michael Maxwell maxwell at umiacs.umd.edu
Tue Apr 15 18:47:46 UTC 2008


Joakim Nivre wrote:
> We have trained and evaluated MaltParser (an open-source data-driven
> dependency parser available from http://w3.msi.vxu.se/jha/maltparser/) on

(the above link seems to be broken)

> the Latin Dependency Treebank described by Bamman and Crane in their paper
> at the 2006 Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories
> (http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/tlt2006/pdf/110.pdf). However, the results so far
> are not very impressive because of the limited amount of training data and
> the high amount of non-projective structures (especially in poetry).
> Moreover, we did not use a part-of-speech tagger for preprocessing but
> simply used the manual part-of-speech annotation in the treebank as input.

I'm unclear how you handled the POS tags--did both training and test data
have POS tags?

   Mike Maxwell
   CASL/ U MD


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