Part-of-Speech Tagging With Neural Networks

Text corpora which are tagged with part-of-speech information are useful in many areas of linguistic research. In this paper, a new part-of-speech tagging method based on neural networks (Net-Tagger) is presented and its performance is compared to that of a HMM-tagger (Cutting et al., 1992) and a trigram-based tagger (Kempe, 1993). It is shown that the Net-Tagger performs as well as the trigram-based tagger and better than the HMM-tagger.