Commercial and internet taggers

John Kirk (jkirk@clio.arts.qub.ac.uk)
Tue, 7 May 1996 15:54:55 +0000

Despite all that we hear about grammatical taggers, and for all the
proliferation of tagsets, am I right in thinking that for some ordinary
soul, not part of a major project developing taggers, but eager to tag some
texts, there is still only one commercial option and two internet options?

The commercial option is to BUY the original Nijmegen TOSCA tagger
(i.e. not the ICE tagger, which is only available to participants in that
project).

The INTERNET options are to send smallish amounts of material
EITHER to the ENGCG tagger in Helsinki (ENGCG@ling.helsinki.fi) OR to the
on-line Birmingham tagger (tagger@clg.bham.uk.ac). These appear to be free.

Can anyone add to my list? This must be a huge but still
unsatisfied need, not least by students eager to work on their own
material. My query is simply about availability for tagging particularly,
if possible, large amounts of text, preferrably for free - not about the
quality of the tagging.

I'll be glad to post a summary of replies.

With thanks again,

John Kirk