Part-of-speech tagging is needed for French Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis to disambiguate the pronunciation of homograph heterophones, liaison instances, and eventually to model intonational contours. A core problem in the part-of-speech tagging in French TTS is to decide on the tagset used for the tagger and the tagset needed by TTS. We carried out a number of experiments on several sizes of ...

Part-of-speech information is a pre-requisite in many NLP algorithms. However, Twitter text is difficult to part-of-speech tag: it is noisy, with linguistic errors and idiosyncratic style. We present a detailed error analysis of existing taggers, motivating a series of tagger augmentations which are demonstrated to improve performance. We identify and evaluate techniques for improving English p...

In this paper, we are going to focus on speed up of the Word Sense Disambiguation procedure by filtering the relevant senses of an ambiguous word through Part-of-Speech Tagging. First, this proposed approach performs the Part-of-Speech Tagging operation before the disambiguation procedure using Bigram approximation. As a result, the exact Part-of-Speech of the ambiguous word at a particular tex...

Part of speech (POS) tagging is basically the process of automatically assigning its lexical category to each word according to its context and definition. Each word of sentence is marked in croups as corresponding to a particular part of speech like noun, verb, adjective and adverb. POS serves as a first step in natural language process applications like information extraction, parsing, and wo...

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Part-of-speech tagging is the process of associating each word in a text with it’s part-of-speech category and possibly a set of morphosyntactic features. This information is represented by part-of-speech tags. This paper describes an implementation of a part-of-speech tagger for Swedish based on the Brill method. The basic idea is to apply a set of rules to an initial annotation achieved using...

Text-to-speech synthesis can be an empowering communication tool in the hands of the print-disabled or augmentative and alternative communication user. In an effort to improve the naturalness of synthesised speech – and thus enhance the communication experience – we apply the natural language processing tasks of part-of-speech tagging and chunking to the text in the synthesis process. We cover ...

The connection between part-of-speech (POS) categories and morphological properties is well-documented in linguistics but underutilized in text processing systems. This paper proposes a novel model for morphological segmentation that is driven by this connection. Our model learns that words with common affixes are likely to be in the same syntactic category and uses learned syntactic categories...