Re: morphologic tagging

P. Isabelle [TAO] (isabelle@citi.doc.ca)
Thu, 4 May 1995 13:22:34 -0400

> We at University of Tartu are tagging the corpus of written
> Estonian texts. Our problem is: how to tag morphologically
> such expressions as "has already been"? What is better: to tag
> "has been" as a form of "be", or "has" as a form of "have" and
> "been" as a form of "be"? Why?
> Thanks!
> Mare Koit
>

If you tag "has been" as a form of be, how are you going to
tag "has not been", "has never been", etc. etc.

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