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New spaCy-based POS tagger achieves high accuracy for Scottish Gaelic

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Researchers have developed a part-of-speech tagger for Scottish Gaelic, an endangered and morphologically complex language, using the spaCy Natural Language Processing framework. Two models were trained with minimal pre-processing and configuration: one with a fine-grained tagset achieving 88.6% accuracy and another with a coarse-grained tagset reaching 93.7% accuracy. These results demonstrate that straightforward, off-the-shelf NLP pipelines can achieve strong performance even with limited annotated data and complex linguistic structures. AI

IMPACT Demonstrates effective NLP techniques for low-resource languages, potentially aiding in the preservation and digital accessibility of endangered languages.

RANK_REASON Academic paper detailing a new NLP model for a low-resource language. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New spaCy-based POS tagger achieves high accuracy for Scottish Gaelic

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Peter Stefan, Peter J Barclay, Alistair Lawson ·

    A Modular Part-of-Speech Tagger for Scottish Gaelic using spaCy

    arXiv:2608.04808v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Part-of-speech tagging for low-resource languages remains challenging due to limited annotated data, especially for linguistically complex languages. Gaidhlig (Scottish Gaelic) is a morphologically rich and endangered language with …

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