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This paper describes and evaluates a simple modification to the Brill Part-of-Speech Tagger. In its standard distribution the Brill Tagger allows manual assignment of a part-of-speech tag to a word prior to tagging. However, it may change it to another tag during processing. We suggest a change that guarantees that the pre-tag remains unchanged and ensures that it is used throughout the tagging process. Our method of guaranteed pre-tagging is appropriate when the tag of a word is known for certain, and is intended to help improve the accuracy of tagging by providing a reliable anchor or seed around which to tag.
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Mohammad, S., Pedersen, T. (2003). Guaranteed Pre-tagging for the Brill Tagger. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2588. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36456-0_15
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