taggers

RS-FORSYTH@wpg.uwe.ac.uk
Thu, 18 Apr 1996 17:10:18 +0000

i am looking for a cheap robust part-of-speech tagger
for English that runs on PCs & handles plain ASCII text.
structural analysis is optional as long as the word
tagging is consistent & fairly accurate.
(Latin also wd be nice, but i'm not hopeful about that!)

i'm aware of some, such as micro-EYEBALL, CLAWS, ENGCG,
AUTASYS, & the `xerox tagger' but as far as i know
none of them quite fulfils my spec. E.g.
EYEBALL -- low-cost, but not fully automatic,
requires human interaction;
CLAWS -- only VAX Pascal source in public domain (?i think);
ENGCG -- good but expensive (c. $1500);
AUTASYS -- good but not cheap (c. ?500);
Xerox tagger -- only runs under unix (?i think).

[latter feature is a disadvantage from my point of view as i'm
not very unix-literate & want to do most of the work on
my home PC.]

corrections &/or additions to the above imperfect
`knowledge base' wd be appreciated.

thanks,
richard forsyth (UWE Bristol).