🏷 POS-Tagging §

= the process of assigning 🧩 Parts of Speech tags (categories) to words

Methods §

Good methods combine frequency information with context

• ✍ Hand coded POS-Tagging
• 🕶 Brill tagger
• often: 🥷 Hidden Markov model

Difficulties §

• Ambiguity (e.g. “saw” → NN or VBD)

Tags §

Popular tag-set: 🟫 Brown TAGS