>I am looking for a tagger for French to use in the ETAP project at Uppsala
>university. Anyone who has suggestions?
I personnally use a tagger commercialized by the Synapse company, called
"Cordial Universités". It runs under Windows, is easy to install, and its
efficiency is state-of-the-art. The tagset is based on the one I developed
in the Multext project (http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/projects/multext), that
was also used in the Grace evaluation (http://www.limsi.fr/TLP/grace/).
It is cheap, around 100 dollars, but you can have more precise information
from Synapse: <info@synapse-fr.com>.
ps: if you need information on French tools and resources, there is a
discussion list devoted to French NLP (ln@cnusc.fr), which I happened to
create about ten years ago and which is now moderated by Philippe Blache &
Pierre Zweigenbaum. information at http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN-FR/LN/.
Jean Véronis, Professeur de Linguistique et Informatique
Directeur du Centre Informatique pour les Lettres et Sciences Humaines
Université de Provence
29 av. Robert Schuman
13621 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 1, France
tel: +33 (0) 4 42 95 31 35
fax: +33 (0) 4 42 95 34 95
email: Jean.Veronis@lpl.univ-aix.fr
http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/