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New resources and metrics developed for Irish language tokenization alignment

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Researchers have developed new resources and evaluation metrics for Irish language tokenization, aiming to align digital processing with the language's morphological structures. The paper introduces MoirfEolas, a dataset of over 35,000 Irish words with their associated affixes, and CríochScore, a metric to assess how well tokenization aligns with these morphological boundaries. Evaluations indicate that the Unigram Language Model performs better than other tested algorithms in aligning with Irish morphology, offering practical insights for developing Irish NLP tools and addressing the language's low-resource status. AI

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RANK_REASON Academic paper presenting new resources and evaluation metrics for a specific language's NLP challenges. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New resources and metrics developed for Irish language tokenization alignment

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Jane Adkins, Abigail Walsh, Brian Davis, Elaine U\'i Dhonnchadha ·

    MoirfEolas and Cr\'iochScore: Developing Resources for and the Evaluation of Tokenization Alignment with Irish Morphology

    arXiv:2609.05022v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents new tokenization resources for Irish and evaluation measures of alignment with the morphological boundaries of the language. We present MoirfEolas, a dataset of over 35,000 Irish words mapped to their respective …

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