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TwittIrish: A Universal Dependencies Treebank of Tweets in Modern Irish

Lauren Cassidy, Teresa Lynn, James Barry, Jennifer Foster


Abstract
Modern Irish is a minority language lacking sufficient computational resources for the task of accurate automatic syntactic parsing of user-generated content such as tweets. Although language technology for the Irish language has been developing in recent years, these tools tend to perform poorly on user-generated content. As with other languages, the linguistic style observed in Irish tweets differs, in terms of orthography, lexicon, and syntax, from that of standard texts more commonly used for the development of language models and parsers. We release the first Universal Dependencies treebank of Irish tweets, facilitating natural language processing of user-generated content in Irish. In this paper, we explore the differences between Irish tweets and standard Irish text, and the challenges associated with dependency parsing of Irish tweets. We describe our bootstrapping method of treebank development and report on preliminary parsing experiments.
Anthology ID:
2022.acl-long.473
Volume:
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Month:
May
Year:
2022
Address:
Dublin, Ireland
Editors:
Smaranda Muresan, Preslav Nakov, Aline Villavicencio
Venue:
ACL
SIG:
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
Note:
Pages:
6869–6884
Language:
URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.473
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.473
Bibkey:
Cite (ACL):
Lauren Cassidy, Teresa Lynn, James Barry, and Jennifer Foster. 2022. TwittIrish: A Universal Dependencies Treebank of Tweets in Modern Irish. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 6869–6884, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
TwittIrish: A Universal Dependencies Treebank of Tweets in Modern Irish (Cassidy et al., ACL 2022)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.473.pdf
Video:
 https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.473.mp4
Code
 universaldependencies/ud_irish-twittirish