Chapter 4. Parts-of-Speech Tagging – Identifying Words
Parts-of-speech (POS) tagging is one of the many tasks in NLP. It is defined as the process of assigning a particular parts-of-speech tag to individual words in a sentence. The parts-of-speech tag identifies whether a word is a noun, verb, adjective, and so on. There are numerous applications of parts-of-speech tagging, such as information retrieval, machine translation, NER, language analysis, and so on.
This chapter will include the following topics:
- Creating POS tagged corpora
- Selecting a machine learning algorithm
- Statistical modeling involving the n-gram approach
- Developing a chunker using POS tagged data
Introducing parts-of-speech tagging
Parts-of-speech tagging is the process of assigning ...
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