A global model for joint lemmatization and part-of-speech prediction

We present a global joint model for lemmatization and part-of-speech prediction. Using only morphological lexicons and unlabeled data, we learn a partiallysupervised part-of-speech tagger and a lemmatizer which are combined using features on a dynamically linked dependency structure of words. We evaluate our model on English, Bulgarian, Czech, and Slovene, and demonstrate substantial improvements over both a direct transduction approach to lemmatization and a pipelined approach, which predicts part-of-speech tags before lemmatization.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2009
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Kristina Toutanova, Colin Cherry
• Keywords: ACL 2009, Computational Linguistics, Global Joint Model, Part-of-speech, Partiallysupervised Part-of-speech Tagger