Corpora: training Brill's tagger with French

[Jean Veronis]

At 09:47 13/03/2001 +0100, Andre Linden wrote:
>Dear members,
>
>       We are currently working with Brill's tagger on French texts. We
>are facing the problem of training the tagger with accented texts and
>would like to know if anyone already has encountered this problem. We
>would very much appreciate any feedback on your own experience in this
>regard.

An adaptation to French has already been made and can be downloaded:

http://jupiter.inalf.cnrs.fr/WinBrill/winbrill.bienvenue.html

There is another tagger that more and more teams use in France, since it 
performes well (probably the best tagger at the moment), and does not 
require any training, hacking, etc. It is commercially distributed, but 
very cheap for research (I think less then USD 100). It is called Cordial 
Analyseur, and is developped by Synapse Development.

Contact:

http://www.synapse-fr.com/
Mr. Dominique LAURENT <dlaurent at synapse-fr.com>



Jean Véronis
http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/