README.md

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title: Kabyle POS Tagger
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sdk: gradio
sdk_version: 6.15.2
app_file: app.py
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license: apache-2.0

Kabyle POS Tagger Demo

Interactive demo for the boffire/kabyle-pos model — a Part-of-Speech tagger for Kabyle (kab), a Berber language spoken in Algeria.

Model Details

• Base: XLM-RoBERTa-base
• Task: Token Classification (POS tagging)
• Test F1: 87.5%
• Tagset: Universal Dependencies (17 tags)

Usage

Type or paste a Kabyle sentence and click Submit to see predicted POS tags with confidence scores.

Limitations

• Trained on ~1,200 sentences (small dataset)
• Struggles with complex cliticized verb forms
• Domain bias toward short translated sentences (Tatoeba corpus)
• No diacritic normalization

Citation

Side part of the Masakhane initiative for African NLP. See the model card for full citation details.