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Syntactic Wordclass Tagging

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Part of the book series: Text, Speech and Language Technology (TLTB, volume 9)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. The User’s View

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Orientation

      • Atro Voutilainen
      Pages 3-7
    3. A Short History of Tagging

      • Atro Voutilainen
      Pages 9-21
    4. The Use of Tagging

      • Geoffrey Leech, Nicholas Smith
      Pages 23-36
    5. Tagsets

      • Jan Cloeren
      Pages 37-54
    6. Standards for Tagsets

      • Geoffrey Leech, Andrew Wilson
      Pages 55-80
    7. Performance of Taggers

      • Hans van Halteren
      Pages 81-94
    8. Selection and Operation of Taggers

      • Hans van Halteren
      Pages 95-104
  3. The Implementer’s View

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
    2. Automatic Taggers: An Introduction

      • Hans van Halteren, Atro Voutilainen
      Pages 109-115
    3. Tokenization

      • Gregory Grefenstette
      Pages 117-133
    4. Lexicons for Tagging

      • Anne Schiller, Lauri Karttunen
      Pages 135-147
    5. Standardization in the Lexicon

      • Monica Monachini, Nicoletta Calzolari
      Pages 149-174
    6. Morphological Analysis

      • Kemal Oflazer
      Pages 175-205
    7. Tagging Unknown Words

      • Eric Brill
      Pages 207-216
    8. Hand-Crafted Rules

      • Atro Voutilainen
      Pages 217-246
    9. Corpus-Based Rules

      • Eric Brill
      Pages 247-262
    10. Hidden Markov Models

      • Marc El-Beze, Bernard Merialdo
      Pages 263-284
    11. Machine Learning Approaches

      • Walter Daelemans
      Pages 285-304

About this book

In both the linguistic and the language engineering community, the creation and use of annotated text collections (or annotated corpora) is currently a hot topic. Annotated texts are of interest for research as well as for the development of natural language pro­ cessing (NLP) applications. Unfortunately, the annotation of text material, especially more interesting linguistic annotation, is as yet a difficult task and can entail a substan­ tial amount of human involvement. Allover the world, work is being done to replace as much as possible of this human effort by computer processing. At the frontier of what can already be done (mostly) automatically we find syntactic wordclass tagging, the annotation of the individual words in a text with an indication of their morpho syntactic classification. This book describes the state of the art in syntactic wordclass tagging. As an attempt to give an overall view of the field, this book is of interest to (at least) two, possibly very different, types of reader. The first type consists of those people who are using, or are planning to use, tagged material and taggers. They will want to know what the possibilities and impossibilities of tagging are, but are not necessarily interested in the internal working of automatic taggers. This, on the other hand, is the main interest of our second type of reader, the builders of automatic taggers and other natural language processing software.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Hans Halteren

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