Assessment and Development of POS Tag Set for Telugu

In this paper, we first had a overall study of existing POS tag sets for European and Indian languages. Till now, most of the research done on POS tagging is for English. We observed that even though the research on POS tagging for English is done exhaustively, part-of-speech annotation in various research applications is incomparable which is variously due to the variations in tag set definitions. We understand that the morphosyntactic features of the language and the degree of desire to represent the granularity of these morpho-syntactic features, domain etc., decide the tags in the tag set. We then examined how POS tagset design has to be handled for Indian languages, taking Telugu language into consideration.