Training a Brill tagger
The BrillTagger class is a transformation-based tagger. It is the first tagger that is not a subclass of SequentialBackoffTagger. Instead, the BrillTagger class uses a series of rules to correct the results of an initial tagger. These rules are scored based on how many errors they correct minus the number of new errors they produce.
How to do it...
Here's a function from tag_util.py that trains a BrillTagger class using BrillTaggerTrainer. It requires an initial_tagger and train_sents.
from nltk.tag import brill, brill_trainer def train_brill_tagger(initial_tagger, train_sents, **kwargs): templates = [ brill.Template(brill.Pos([-1])), brill.Template(brill.Pos([1])), brill.Template(brill.Pos([-2])), brill.Template(brill.Pos([2])), ...
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