A syntax-based part-of-speech analyser
<|reference_start|>A syntax-based part-of-speech analyser: There are two main methodologies for constructing the knowledge base of a natural language analyser: the linguistic and the data-driven. Recent state-of-the-art part-of-speech taggers are based on the data-driven approach. Because of the known feasibility of the linguistic rule-based approach at related levels of description, the success of the data-driven approach in part-of-speech analysis may appear surprising. In this paper, a case is made for the syntactic nature of part-of-speech tagging. A new tagger of English that uses only linguistic distributional rules is outlined and empirically evaluated. Tested against a benchmark corpus of 38,000 words of previously unseen text, this syntax-based system reaches an accuracy of above 99%. Compared to the 95-97% accuracy of its best competitors, this result suggests the feasibility of the linguistic approach also in part-of-speech analysis.<|reference_end|>
@article{voutilainen1995a,
    title={A syntax-based part-of-speech analyser},
    author={Atro Voutilainen (Research Unit for Multilingual Language Technology,
  University of Helsinki, Finland)},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:cmp-lg/9502012},
    year={1995},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cmp-lg/9502012},
    primaryClass={cmp-lg cs.CL}
}