Re: Corpora: recommendation for tagger software

From: E S Atwell (eric@comp.leeds.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Aug 09 2000 - 18:23:39 MET DST

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    Joel,

    re your query to CORPORA

    On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Joel Kuipers wrote:
    > Hi -I would like some recommendations for tagger software. I have some
    > transcriptions of psychiatric interviews in colloquial English and I
    > would like to find a program that can scan the texts and sort them into
    > parts of speech so I can do further analysis on them.
    >
    > Any suggestions?
    >
    > Please respond to:
    >
    > kuipers@gwu.edu
    >
    > Joel Kuipers
    > Department of Anthropology
    > George Washington University
    > Washington DC 20052
    >

    We are currently surveying past user of amalgam-tagger@scs.leeds.ac.uk,
    our free part-of-speech tagging service - email an English text, it
    replies with text one-word-per-line plus part-of-speech tag according to
    your grammar markup scheme from Brown/ICE/LLC/LOB/parts/POW/SEC/UPenn, see

    http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/amalgam/amalgam/amalgtag3.html

    None of the survey replies so far have mentioned use for psychiatric
    interviews, but I see no reason why amalgam-tagger shouldnt work forthese!

    Jenny Thomas and Andrew Wilson have tried using more somphisticated
    semantic analysis (ACAMRIT) on top of Part-of-Speech tagging; see
    http://www.bangor.ac.uk/ling/staff/els01a/jenny.htm
     - specifically:

    Jenny Thomas and Andrew Wilson. 1996. Methodologies for studying a corpus
    of doctor-patient interaction. In J. Thomas and M. Short (eds) Using
    corpora for language research. Longman, London, pp 92-109.

    Jon Patrick of University of Sydney has also worked on NLP analysis of
    patient interviews, see
    http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jonpat/complinguisitcs.html

    Hope this helps; I'd be interested to learn more about your work.
     
    Eric Atwell
     

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