[Corpora-List] Corpora Digest, Vol 39, Issue 27

[Eric Atwell]

Nasir,

If your research is on adverbials in your English corpus tagged by
CLAWS7, you should note that PoS-taggers can make errors in tagging,
and may have particular difficutlies in tagging Adverbs consistently and
correctly.  Leeds PhD student Owen Nancarrow is researching this topic.
See:

Nancarrow, O; Atwell, ES. 2009. 
How Reliable are Modern English Tagged Corpora? A case-study of 
modifier and degree adverbs in Brown, LOB, the BNC-Sampler, and ICE-GB.
Proceedings of CL2009 Corpus Linguistics Conference.
http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/publications/cl2009/383_FullPaper.doc

Nancarrow, O; Atwell, ES. 2007.
  A comparative study of the tagging of adverbs in modern English corpora.
Proceedings of CL2007 Corpus Linguistics Conference.
http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/publications/CL2007/paper/272_Paper.pdf

Nancarrow, O. forthcoming. 
A comparative study of the tagging of adverbs in modern English corpora.
PhD thesis, School of Computing, University of Leeds.



Eric Atwell, School of Computing, Leeds University


On Mon, 27 Sep 2010, nasir saim wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am doing  research on Adverbials in Pakistani English. I have tagged
> corpus of Pakistani written English. This data has been tagged by Claws 7
> tagger. I have a  list of adverbials to be researched. For this purpose I
> want my data parsed. Can you help me in this regard. Thanks in advance.
> 
> Nasir Saim
> 
> 
>
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