I greatly appreciate the comments of everyone who has become involved in
this discussion. It has been extremely informative.
For those whose interest has been sparked by the dialog, I would like to
recommend an article by Steven J. DeRose in Computational Linguistics
(volume 14, Number 1, Winter 1988) which presents a nice overview of a few
different tagging algorithms (in addition to the author's own proposal,
of course).
Thanks!
Linda VanGuilder