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A system for ‘tagging’ words with their part-of-speech (POS) tags is constructed. The system has two components: a lexicon containing the set of possible POS tags for a given word, and rules which use a word's context to eliminate possible tags for a word. The Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) system Progol is used to induce these rules in the form of definite clauses. The final theory contained 885 clauses. For background knowledge, Progol uses a simple grammar, where the tags are terminals and predicates such as nounp (noun phrase) are non-terminals. Progol was altered to allow the caching of information about clauses generated during the induction process which greatly increased efficiency. The system achieved a per-word accuracy of 96.4% on known words drawn from sentences without quotation marks. This is on a par with other tagging systems induced from the same data [5, 2, 4] which all have accuracies in the range 96–97%. The per-sentence accuracy was 4 49.5%.
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Cussens, J. (1997). Part-of-speech tagging using Progol. In: Lavrač, N., Džeroski, S. (eds) Inductive Logic Programming. ILP 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1297. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3540635149_38
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