[Corpora-List] Simple POS tagger

[David L. Hoover]

I need a simple POS tagger (preferably freeware) for a modest corpus of
contemporary American Poetry (total corpus is about 1,500,000 words, but
the samples are mostly under 100,000 words, and I would be happy with a
program that could handle even only much smaller samples, say 10,000 words.

I am mainly interested in noun and verb statistics, and do not need to
process the tags further or to use the tagged text in any other way.
Basically, I want to determine the percentage of the text tokens that
are in the various word classes.

I'm working with a fairly robust Windows XP Professional computer, and
would prefer something that won't take a lot of extra
installation/configuration work.

I have done some research, but there are so many choices it is difficult
to know where to start.

Any favorites?

Thanks,
David Hoover

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