Pilon, Suléne, Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen, and Liesbeth Augustinus. 2010. “Converting Afrikaans to Dutch for technology recycling.” Proceedings of the 2010 Conference of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa:219-224.
Pilon, Van Huyssteen & Augustinus 2010
English: Afrikaans, closely-related languages, Dutch, human language technology, machine translation, POS tagging, recycling
Afrikaans: Afrikaans, hersiklering, masjienvertaling, mensetaaltegnologie, naby verwante tale, Nederlands, woordsoortetikettering
English: HLT resource development for a resource scarce language (L2) can be expedited by recycling existing technologies for a closely related language (L1). To improve the success of L1 technologies on L2 data, one can convert L2 data to make it appear more L1-like. We explore this possibility by developing an Afrikaans-to-Dutch lexical conversion module and using it as pre-processing step before applying a Dutch part of speech tagger to Afrikaans data. The accuracy of the Dutch tagger increased from 62.6%, when tagging raw Afrikaans data, to 80.6% when tagging converted Afrikaans data. We therefore conclude that, at least in the case of Dutch and Afrikaans, the use of lexical conversion as a pre-processing step for technology recycling merits further investigation.
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In: English
On: Afrikaans and Dutch