Re: Corpora: parser recommendation

From: E S Atwell (eric@comp.leeds.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Jan 22 2001 - 17:04:59 MET

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    On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Stav Tamy wrote:

    > Hello Everyone,
    >
    > Can anybody point me to a free, user friendly, POS tagger for English? I
    > am doing some CTA as part of my PhD research, and cannot contemplate at
    > length the mysteries of tagging :-). I remember a summery on the subject
    > but couldn't find it in the corpora archives.
    >
    > Thanks,
    > Tamy Stav, the Technion.
    > tamy@tx.technion.ac.il
    >

    Tamy,
    Try emailing English text to amalgam-tagger@comp.leeds.ac.uk
    It comes back with a POS-tag on each word. You can choose from a range of
    English Corpus POS-tag schemes, which you specify in the SUBJECT: field.
    For example, if the e-mail message is

    To: amalgam-tagger@comp.leeds.ac.uk
    Subject: verbose lob

    If he's not in action, he's in traction!

    the following text will be e-mailed back:

    if/CS conjunction, subordinating
    he/PP3A pronoun, personal, nominative, 3rd person singular
    's/BEZ verb "to be", present tense, 3rd person singular
    not/XNOT negator
    in/IN preposition
    action/NN noun, singular, common
    ,/, comma
    he/PP3A pronoun, personal, nominative, 3rd person singular
    's/BEZ verb "to be", present tense, 3rd person singular
    in/IN preposition
    traction/NN noun, singular, common
    !/! exclamation mark

    SEE http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/amalgam/amalgam/amalgtag3.html
    for more details of SUBJECT: options

    enjoy!

    Eric Atwell 

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    On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Stav Tamy wrote:

    > Hello Everyone,
> 
> Can anybody point me to a free, user friendly, POS tagger for English? I
> am doing some CTA as part of my PhD research, and cannot contemplate at
> length the mysteries of tagging :-). I remember a summery on the subject
> but couldn't find it in the corpora archives.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tamy Stav, the Technion.
> tamy@tx.technion.ac.il
> 
> 
>

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