@inproceedings{RehbeinRuppenhoferZimmermann2018, author = {Ines Rehbein and Josef Ruppenhofer and Victor Zimmermann}, title = {A harmonised testsuite for POS tagging of German social media data}, series = {Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2018). September 19-21, 2018 Vienna, Austria}, editor = {Adrien Barbaresi and Hanno Biber and Friedrich Neubarth and Rainer Osswald}, publisher = {Austrian academy of sciences}, address = {Vienna, Austria}, url = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-79318}, pages = {18 -- 28}, year = {2018}, abstract = {We present a testsuite for POS tagging German web data. Our testsuite provides the original raw text as well as the gold tokenisations and is annotated for parts-of-speech. The testsuite includes a new dataset for German tweets, with a current size of 3,940 tokens. To increase the size of the data, we harmonised the annotations in already existing web corpora, based on the Stuttgart-T{\"u}bingen Tag Set. The current version of the corpus has an overall size of 48,344 tokens of web data, around half of it from Twitter. We also present experiments, showing how different experimental setups (training set size, additional out-of-domain training data, self-training) influence the accuracy of the taggers. All resources and models will be made publicly available to the research community.}, language = {en} }