We present here the results of an experiment aiming at crowdsourcing part-of-speech annotations for a less-resourced French regional language, Alsatian. We used for this purpose a specifically-developed slightly gamified platform, Bisame. It allowed us to gather annotations on a variety of corpora covering some of the language dialectal variations. The quality of the annotations, which reach an averaged F-measure of 93%, enabled us to train a first tagger for Alsatian that is nearly 84% accurate. The platform as well as the produced annotations and tagger are freely available. The platform can easily be adapted to other languages, thus providing a solution to (some of) the less-resourced languages issue.
@InProceedings{MILLOUR18.326, author = {Alice Millour and Karën Fort}, title = "{Toward a Lightweight Solution for Less-resourced Languages: Creating a POS Tagger for Alsatian Using Voluntary Crowdsourcing}", booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {May 7-12, 2018}, address = {Miyazaki, Japan}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference chair) and Khalid Choukri and Christopher Cieri and Thierry Declerck and Sara Goggi and Koiti Hasida and Hitoshi Isahara and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Hélène Mazo and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis and Takenobu Tokunaga}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {979-10-95546-00-9}, language = {english} }
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