Paul Rayson

Should corpus linguists learn to code?

2016 · Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University)

Invited talk

UNLT: Urdu Natural Language Toolkit

2022 · Natural Language Engineering

Abstract This study describes a Natural Language Processing (NLP) toolkit, as the first contribution of a larger project, for an under-resourced language—Urdu. In previous studies, standard NLP toolkits have been developed for English and many …

MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages

2021 · Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Abstract We take a step towards addressing the under- representation of the African continent in NLP research by bringing together different stakeholders to create the first large, publicly available, high-quality dataset for named entity recognition …