Brill's PoS Tagger with Extended Lexical Templates for Hungarian
Beáta Megyesi · 1999
In this paper Brill’s rule-based PoS tagger is tested and adapted to Hungarian. It is shown that the present system does not obtain as high accuracy for Hungarian as it does for English because of the structural difference between these languages. Hungarian has rich morphology, is agglutinative with inflectional characteristics and has free word order. The tagger has the greatest difficulties with parts-of-speech belonging to open classes because of their complicated morphological structure. The accuracy of tagging can be increased from 83% to 97% by changing the rule generating mechanisms, namely the lexical templates in the lexical training module.