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title: Kabyle POS Tagger
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# Kabyle POS Tagger Demo

Interactive demo for the [boffire/kabyle-pos](https://huggingface.co/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.