Title :
Identifying part-of-speech patterns for automatic tagging
Author :
Perry, Lynellen D S
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Mississippi State Univ., MS, USA
Abstract :
Some part-of-speech tagging errors are very damaging to the ability to further process the text. For systems that use part-of-speech tagging as a prelude to parsing and knowledge extraction, it is imperative to have the cleanest possible tagging. A state-of-the-art rule-based tagger has an error rate of approximately 39% when annotating main verbs that have not been previously seen. We apply neural networks to this real-world problem of identifying part-of-speech patterns that indicate a main verb so as to correct the output of the rule-based tagger
Keywords :
backpropagation; fractals; grammars; indexing; knowledge acquisition; natural languages; neural nets; automatic tagging; knowledge extraction; main verb; parsing; part-of-speech patterns; state-of-the-art rule-based tagger; tagging errors; Chemistry; Computer errors; Computer science; Error analysis; Inspection; Neural networks; Pattern recognition; Speech coding; Tagging; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Neural Networks Proceedings, 1998. IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. The 1998 IEEE International Joint Conference on
Conference_Location :
Anchorage, AK
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4859-1
DOI :
10.1109/IJCNN.1998.687143