how to report mor tagging accuracy rate

Brian MacWhinney macw at cmu.edu
Thu May 31 12:07:35 UTC 2012


Why not contribute this corpus to CHILDES and then we can all examine the
success of tagging?

-- Brian MacWhinney

On May 31, 2012, at 11:37 AM, Huang Y.J. wrote:

> I am currently using CLAN to do frequency analysis based on
> syntactical structure in English. Currently, my corpus size is about
> 2,000,000 words in the genre of children's novels (about 50 books in
> multiple files).
> 
> For I will be using part of speech (POS) information often, so I
> consider to use Mor and POST to tag my corpus.  And for the increasing
> size and variety of my corpus, I won't be able to do POSTTRAINing to
> improve the tagging accuracy.
> 
> So one of the questions that has been concerning by me is the tagging
> accuracy rate. I have read the Enriching CHIDLES for Morphosyntactic
> Analysis; and I found that the accuracy rate is claimed in the
> document to be close to 94~95% (pp.10-11 & pp.14-15)
> 
> But I was wondering is there any formal report to support this
> accuracy rate of tagging with mor without posttraining? And if not,
> how can I be sure of my corpus reached a certain standard of accuracy?
> I mean is there any way to test the accuracy tagging rate of my
> corpus, or any document to support the mor tagging accuracy rate for
> validity?
> 
> Many thanks.
> Huang Y.J.
> 
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