calamanCy: A Tagalog Natural Language Processing Toolkit

2023/11/13 by Lester James V. Miranda, Miranda, Lester James V. · 1 citation
Computer Science · #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Natural Language Processing Techniques #Text Readability and Simplification #Topic Modeling

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2311.07171

openalex publication_date 2023/11/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We introduce calamanCy, an open-source toolkit for constructing natural language processing (NLP) pipelines for Tagalog. It is built on top of spaCy, enabling easy experimentation and integration with other frameworks. calamanCy addresses the development gap by providing a consistent API for building NLP applications and offering general-purpose multitask models with out-of-the-box support for dependency parsing, parts-of-speech (POS) tagging, and named entity recognition (NER). calamanCy aims to accelerate the progress of Tagalog NLP by consolidating disjointed resources in a unified framework. The calamanCy toolkit is available on GitHub: https://github.com/ljvmiranda921/calamanCy.

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