CURRENT STATE OF THE ART POS TAGGING FOR INDIAN LANGUAGES - A STUDY
Ramakanth Kumar. P · 2010
Parts-of-speech (POS) tagging is the basic building block of any Natural Language Processing (NLP) tool. A POS tagger has many applications. Especially for Indian languages, POS tagging adds many more dimensions as most of them are agglutinative, morphologically very rich highly inflected and are sometimes diglossic. Taggers have been developed using linguistic rules, stochastic models or both. This paper is a survey about different POS taggers developed for eight Indian Language, namely Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Manipuri and Assamese in the recent past.