A modal sense classifier for the French modal verb pouvoir
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Authors
Colli A.,
Rossini D.,
Battistelli D.
Type
Conference poster
Year
2024
Language
English
Abstract
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.
