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In this paper we present and evaluate a Brill morphosyntactic transformation-based tagger adapted for specifics of highly inflectional languages. Multi-phase tagging with grammatical category matching transformations and lexical transformations brings significant accuracy improvements comparing to previous work. Evaluation shows the accuracy of 92.44% for the Polish language which is higher than the same metric for the other known taggers of Polish: stochastic trigram tagger (90.59%) and hybrid tagger TaKIPI employing decision tree classifier and automatically extracted rule-based tagger used for tagging the IPI PAN Corpus of Polish (91.06%).
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Acedański, S. (2010). A Morphosyntactic Brill Tagger for Inflectional Languages. In: Loftsson, H., Rögnvaldsson, E., Helgadóttir, S. (eds) Advances in Natural Language Processing. NLP 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6233. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14770-8_3
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