Development of a multilingual parallel corpus and a part-of-speech tagger for Afrikaans

Abstract

This paper describes design and creation of a multilingual parallel corpus for South African languages. One of the applications of the corpus, namely, the induction of a part-of-spccch tagger for Afrikaans from the data, is presented in the paper. Development of the Afrikaans part-of-spccch tagger is based on a modified method for induction of linguistic tools from parallel corpora originally proposed by Yarowsky and Ngai (2001).