There is an implementation of EDTBL as Finite-State Transducers:
Emmanuel Roche and Yves Schabes. 1995.
Deterministic Part-of-Speech Tagging with Finite-State Transducers.
Computational Linguistics. 21(2) pp. 227--253.
They claim 10 times speed-up over other taggers.
--chris
christopher hogan
computational linguistics
pittsburgh, pa
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