Alegria Iñaki, Arrieta Bertol, Diaz de Ilarraza Arantza, Izagirre Eli, Maritxalar Montse. Using machine learning techniques to build a comma checker for Basque

Article. — COLING-ACL '06: Proceedings of the COLING/ACL on Main conference poster sessions. — 2006. — P. 1-8.In this paper, we describe the research using machine learning techniques to build a comma checker to be integrated in a grammar checker for Basque. After several experiments, and trained with a little corpus of 100,000 words, the system guesses correctly not placing commas with a precision of 96% and a recall of 98%. It also gets a precision of 70% and a recall of 49% in the task of placing commas. Finally, we have shown that these results can be improved using a bigger and a more homogeneous corpus to train, that is, a bigger corpus written by one unique author.