@inproceedings{ivanova-kuebler-2008-pos,
title = "{POS} Tagging for {G}erman: how important is the Right Context?",
author = "Ivanova, Steliana and
Kuebler, Sandra",
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
Choukri, Khalid and
Maegaard, Bente and
Mariani, Joseph and
Odijk, Jan and
Piperidis, Stelios and
Tapias, Daniel",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}'08)",
month = may,
year = "2008",
address = "Marrakech, Morocco",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/253_paper.pdf",
abstract = "Part-of-Speech tagging is generally performed by Markov models, based on bigram or trigram models. While Markov models have a strong concentration on the left context of a word, many languages require the inclusion of right context for correct disambiguation. We show for German that the best results are reached by a combination of left and right context. If only left context is available, then changing the direction of analysis and going from right to left improves the results. In a version of MBT with default parameter settings, the inclusion of the right context improved POS tagging accuracy from 94.00{\%} to 96.08{\%}, thus corroborating our hypothesis. The version with optimized parameters reaches 96.73{\%}.",
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%T POS Tagging for German: how important is the Right Context?
%A Ivanova, Steliana
%A Kuebler, Sandra
%Y Calzolari, Nicoletta
%Y Choukri, Khalid
%Y Maegaard, Bente
%Y Mariani, Joseph
%Y Odijk, Jan
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
%Y Tapias, Daniel
%S Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’08)
%D 2008
%8 May
%I European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
%C Marrakech, Morocco
%F ivanova-kuebler-2008-pos
%X Part-of-Speech tagging is generally performed by Markov models, based on bigram or trigram models. While Markov models have a strong concentration on the left context of a word, many languages require the inclusion of right context for correct disambiguation. We show for German that the best results are reached by a combination of left and right context. If only left context is available, then changing the direction of analysis and going from right to left improves the results. In a version of MBT with default parameter settings, the inclusion of the right context improved POS tagging accuracy from 94.00% to 96.08%, thus corroborating our hypothesis. The version with optimized parameters reaches 96.73%.
%U http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/253_paper.pdf
Markdown (Informal)
[POS Tagging for German: how important is the Right Context?](http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/253_paper.pdf) (Ivanova & Kuebler, LREC 2008)
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