El-Haj, Mahmoud and Kruschwitz, Udo and Fox, Chris (2015) Creating language resources for under-resourced languages: methodologies, and experiments with Arabic. Language Resources and Evaluation, 49 (3). pp. 549-580. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-014-9274-3
El-Haj, Mahmoud and Kruschwitz, Udo and Fox, Chris (2015) Creating language resources for under-resourced languages: methodologies, and experiments with Arabic. Language Resources and Evaluation, 49 (3). pp. 549-580. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-014-9274-3
El-Haj, Mahmoud and Kruschwitz, Udo and Fox, Chris (2015) Creating language resources for under-resourced languages: methodologies, and experiments with Arabic. Language Resources and Evaluation, 49 (3). pp. 549-580. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-014-9274-3
Abstract
Language resources are important for those working on computational methods to analyse and study languages. These resources are needed to help advancing the research in fields such as natural language processing, machine learning, information retrieval and text analysis in general. We describe the creation of useful resources for languages that currently lack them, taking resources for Arabic summarisation as a case study. We illustrate three different paradigms for creating language resources, namely: (1) using crowdsourcing to produce a small resource rapidly and relatively cheaply; (2) translating an existing gold-standard dataset, which is relatively easy but potentially of lower quality; and (3) using manual effort with appropriately skilled human participants to create a resource that is more expensive but of high quality. The last of these was used as a test collection for TAC-2011. An evaluation of the resources is also presented.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Resources; Summarisation; Arabic; Under-resourced languages |
Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, School of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 03 Dec 2014 10:31 |
Last Modified: | 16 May 2024 16:37 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/11956 |
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