[Corpora-List] POS taggers and phrase chunkers

[Miles Osborne]

actually, it is easy to get a tagger (such as brill's) also to do chunking; if
you cast the problem such that the chunks do not overlap and are not nested,
then chunking is the same as tagging.  here's a short paper on how you might go
about doing it:

http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~osborne/shallow.ps.gz

Miles


Quoting "Judith D. Schlesinger" <judith at super.org>:

> Thanks for the suggestions that I'm already starting to get.  I'll post
>
> a summary
> to the list in a few days.
>
> In the meantime, I should have said that I'm aware of the Brill tagger.
>
>  But,
> unless someone knows something that I don't, it doesn't do chunking so
> ...
>
> Thanks again--
>
> Judith Schlesinger
> judith at super.org
>
>
>