Tagging and Morphological Processing in the SVENSK System
Fredrik K. Olsson · 1998
: This thesis describes the work of providing separate morphological processing and part-of-speech tagging modules in the svensk system by integrating the Uppsala Chart Processor (UCP) and a Brill tagger into the system. svensk employs GATE (General Architecture for Text Engineering) as the platform in which the components are to be integrated. Two preprocessing modules, a tokeniser and a sentence splitter for Swedish, were developed in order to facilitate the preparation of the texts to be analysed by UCP and the Brill tagger. These four components were then integrated in GATE together with a newly developed viewer for displaying the results produced by UCP. The thesis introduces the reader to the svensk project, the GATE system and its underlying parts, especially the database architecture which is based on the TIPSTER annotation model. Further, the issues in connection with the development and design of the tokeniser and the sentence splitter for Swedish are elaborated on. The mecha...