A modal sense classifier for the French modal verb pouvoir

2024Anna Colli, Diego Rossini, Delphine Battistelli

Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024), Dec 2024, Pise, Italy

In this paper we address the problem of modal sense classification for the French modal verb pouvoir in a transcribed spoken corpus. To the best of our knowledge, no studies have focused on this task in French. We fine-tuned various BERT-based models for French in order to determine which one performed best. It was found that the Flaubert-base-cased model was the most effective (F1-score of 0.94) and that the most frequent categories in our corpus were material possibility and ability, which are both part of the more global alethic category.

Anna Colli, Diego Rossini, Delphine Battistelli. A modal sense classifier for the French modal verb pouvoir. Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024), Dec 2024, Pise, Italy. ⟨hal-04863361⟩ (lien externe)

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APA

Colli, A., Rossini, D., & Battistelli, D. (2024). A modal sense classifier for the French modal verb pouvoir. https://hal.science/hal-04863361v1

MLA

Colli, Anna, et al. A Modal Sense Classifier for the French Modal Verb Pouvoir. Jan. 2024, https://hal.science/hal-04863361v1.

Chicago

Colli, Anna, Diego Rossini, and Delphine Battistelli. 2024. “A Modal Sense Classifier for the French Modal Verb Pouvoir.” https://hal.science/hal-04863361v1.

Harvard

Colli, A., Rossini, D. and Battistelli, D. (2024) “A modal sense classifier for the French modal verb pouvoir.” Available at: https://hal.science/hal-04863361v1.

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COLLI, Anna, ROSSINI, Diego and BATTISTELLI, Delphine, 2024. A modal sense classifier for the French modal verb pouvoir [en ligne]. January 2024. Disponible à l'adresse : https://hal.science/hal-04863361v1