Part-of-Speech Tagging Using Long Short Term Memory (LSTM): Amazigh Text Written in Tifinaghe Characters

Abstract

Long short term memory (LSTM) networks have been gaining popularity in modeling sequential data such as phoneme recognition, speech translation, language modeling, speech synthesis, chatbot-like dialog systems, and others. This paper investigates the attention-based encoder-decoder LSTM networks in TIFINAGH part-of-speech (POS) tagging when it is compared to Conditional Random Fields (CRF) and Decision Tree. The attractiveness of LSTM networks is its strength in modeling long-distance dependencies. The experiment results show that Long short-term memory (LSTM) networks perform better than CRF and Decision Tree that have a near performance.