Re: Corpora: training Brill's tagger with French

From: Torbjörn Lager (lager@ling.gu.se)
Date: Wed Mar 14 2001 - 21:50:57 MET

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    Andre Linden wrote:

    > We are currently working with Brill's tagger on French texts. We
    > are facing the problem of training the tagger with accented texts and
    > would like to know if anyone already has encountered this problem. We
    > would very much appreciate any feedback on your own experience in this
    > regard.

    You may want to know about an alternative transformation-based learner:
    The µ-TBL system:

        http://stp.ling.uu.se/~torbjorn/mutbl.html

    Maybe overkill, maybe not. Depends on what you want to do...

    Best regards,
    Torbjörn 

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