Corpora: recommendation for tagger software

[E S Atwell]

Joel,

re your query to CORPORA

On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Joel Kuipers wrote:
> Hi -I would like some recommendations for tagger software. I have some
> transcriptions of psychiatric interviews in colloquial English and I
> would like to find a program that can scan the texts and sort them into
> parts of speech so I can do further analysis on them.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Please respond to:
>
> kuipers at gwu.edu
>
> Joel Kuipers
> Department of Anthropology
> George Washington University
> Washington DC 20052
>

We are currently surveying past user of amalgam-tagger at scs.leeds.ac.uk,
our free part-of-speech tagging service - email an English text, it
replies with text one-word-per-line plus part-of-speech tag according to
your grammar markup scheme from Brown/ICE/LLC/LOB/parts/POW/SEC/UPenn, see

http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/amalgam/amalgam/amalgtag3.html

None of the survey replies so far have mentioned use for psychiatric
interviews, but I see no reason why amalgam-tagger shouldnt work forthese!

Jenny Thomas and Andrew Wilson have tried using more somphisticated
semantic analysis (ACAMRIT) on top of Part-of-Speech tagging; see
http://www.bangor.ac.uk/ling/staff/els01a/jenny.htm
 - specifically:

Jenny Thomas and Andrew Wilson. 1996. Methodologies for studying a corpus
of doctor-patient interaction. In J. Thomas and M. Short (eds) Using
corpora for language research. Longman, London, pp 92-109.

Jon Patrick of University of Sydney has also worked on NLP analysis of
patient interviews, see
http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jonpat/complinguisitcs.html

Hope this helps; I'd be interested to learn more about your work.

Eric Atwell

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