A Part-of-Speech Tagger for Older Scots: A spaCy-Based Model Using the CLAWS7 Tagset
By: Beth Beattie
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.611 | Journal eISSN: 2059-481X
Language: English
Page range: 117 - 117
Submitted on: Jun 26, 2026
Accepted on: Jul 30, 2026
Published on: Aug 27, 2026
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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