Iykeln/IgboNLP

This project aims to develop NLP resources to support NLP-based research in Igbo. It is a low-resourced African language spoken majorly in the eastern part of Nigeria by the Igbo people ( about 45 million speakers and is made up of over 20 dialects). # IgboNLP This project aims to develop NLP resources to support NLP-based research in Igbo. It is a low-resourced African language spoken majorly in the eastern part of Nigeria by the Igbo people ( about 45 million speakers and is made up of over 20 dialects). # IgboTaggedCorpus It is a folder in IgboNLP repo that contains 10 different files of Part-of-Speech (POS) tagged Igbo corpus. There are different genres of the corpus, viz; novel, religion, story, news, poem and essay. The files that start with fiction is a corpus from a novel, ITC is a religious corpus, story, news, poem and essay. They are POS annotated in three categories: CoarseTagged.corpus: Coarse-grained with common grammatical tags. finegrained.corpus: Fine-grained granularity with tags extended from CoarseTagged.corpus. stripXS.corpus: Coarse by collapsing _XS tags from finegrained.corpus. For quick reference, kindly consult these papers: aclweb.org , etheses.whiterose.ac.uk , researchgate.net , researchgate.net , dl.acm.org , dl.acm.org . # Reference Kindly cite these papers if you use our IgboTagged Corpus: Ikechukwu E Onyenwe, Mark Hepple, Uchechukwu Chinedu, and Ignatius Ezeani. 2018. A Basic Language Resource Kit Implementation for the IgboNLP Project. ACM Trans. Asian Low-Resour. Lang. Inf. Process. 17, 2, Article 10 (February 2018), 23 pages. DOI:A Basic Language Resource K… Ikechukwu E. Onyenwe, Mark Hepple, Uchechukwu Chinedu, and Ignatius Ezeani. 2019. Toward an Effective Igbo Part-of-Speech Tagger. ACM Trans. Asian Low-Resour. Lang. Inf. Process. 18, 4, Article 42 (August 2019), 26 pages. DOI:Toward an Effective Igbo Pa… # Pub …