Part of speech (POS) tags are foremost among the features conventionally used to predict intonational phrase-breaks for text to speech (TTS) conversion. The construction of such systems therefore presupposes the availability of a POS tagger for the relevant language, or of a corpus manually tagged with POS. However, such tools and resources are not available in the majority of the world’s langu...

With performance above 97% accuracy for newspaper text, part of speech (POS) tagging might be considered a solved problem. Previous studies have shown that allowing the parser to resolve POS tag ambiguity does not improve performance. However, for grammar formalisms which use more fine-grained grammatical categories, for example TAG and CCG, tagging accuracy is much lower. In fact, for these fo...

In this paper, we present an applicationoriented evaluation of three Part-ofSpeech (PoS) taggers in a word sense disambiguation (WSD) system. Following the intuition that high quality input is likely to influence the final results of a complex system, we test whether the more accurate taggers also produce better results when integrated into the WSD system. For this purpose, a stand-alone evalua...

The quality of the part-of-speech (PoS) annotation in a corpus is crucial for the development of PoS taggers. In this paper, we experiment with three complementary methods for automatically detecting errors in the PoS annotation for the Icelandic Frequency Dictionary corpus. The first two methods are language independent and we argue that the third method can be adapted to other morphologically...

For any retailer, managing information technology (IT) costs is fundamental. Successful retailing is increasingly dependent on technology-driven innovation, but that does not change the fact that resources are limited. Funding those innovations requires getting the most out of the infrastructure, including point-ofsale (POS) systems. At the same time, more and more is being expected of POS syst...

This article proposes a methodology to model dialogue acts (DA) from part-of-speech (POS) annotations in practical dialogues in Mexican Spanish. An example using empirical data is presented to illustrate this methodology. DA and POS annotations were obtained from DIME, a spoken dialogue corpus in which speakers perform tasks in a virtual environment on a collaborative basis. POS structure is a ...

Investigating the susceptibility of oestrogen receptor-positive (ER(pos)) normal human breast epithelial cells (HBECs) for clinical purposes or basic research awaits a proficient cell-based assay. Here we set out to identify markers for isolating ER(pos) cells and to expand what appear to be post-mitotic primary cells into exponentially growing cultures. We report a robust technique for isolati...

The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) Part Of Speech (POS) tagset has been prepared for the Indian Languages by the POS Tag Standardization Committee of Department of Information Technology (DIT), New Delhi, India. The BIS POS tagset aims to ensure standardization in the POS tagging of all the Indian Languages. It has been used for POS tagging in the Indian Languages Corpora Initiative (ILCI) pr...

Point-of-sale (POS) systems increasingly support more retail processes than just the basic cash functionality. But to what extent do they support chain digitisation, i.e., interorganisational processes as the exchange of order and sales information? We develop a two-dimensional maturity model for categorising POS systems by their level of backward and forward chain digitisation support. Both di...

The authors surveyed full-time retail employees and their supervisors to investigate relationships of supervisors' perceived organizational support (POS) with subordinates' perceptions of support from their supervisors (perceived supervisor support [PSS]), POS, and in-role and extra-role performance. The authors found that supervisors' POS was positively related to their subordinates' perceptio...