"A neural lemmatizer for Bengali" by Abhisek Chakrabarty, Akshay Chaturvedi et al.
 

A neural lemmatizer for Bengali

Document Type

Conference Article

Publication Title

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2016

Abstract

We propose a novel neural lemmatization model which is language independent and supervised in nature. To handle the words in a neural framework, word embedding technique is used to represent words as vectors. The proposed lemmatizer makes use of contextual information of the surface word to be lemmatized. Given a word along with its contextual neighbours as input, the model is designed to produce the lemma of the concerned word as output. We introduce a new network architecture that permits only dimension specific connections between the input and the output layer of the model. For the present work, Bengali is taken as the reference language. Two datasets are prepared for training and testing purpose consisting of 19, 159 and 2, 126 instances respectively. As Bengali is a resource scarce language, these datasets would be beneficial for the respective research community. Evaluation method shows that the neural lemmatizer achieves 69.57% accuracy on the test dataset and outperforms the simple cosine similarity based baseline strategy by a margin of 1.37%.

First Page

2558

Last Page

2561

Publication Date

1-1-2016

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