2000/03/13 by Thorsten Brants · 1 citation
Computer Science · #cs.CL
published as Proceedings of ANLP-2000, Seattle, WA · 8 pages
arxiv created 2000/03/13 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
Trigrams'n'Tags (TnT) is an efficient statistical part-of-speech tagger. Contrary to claims found elsewhere in the literature, we argue that a tagger based on Markov models performs at least as well as other current approaches, including the Maximum Entropy framework. A recent comparison has even shown that TnT performs significantly better for the tested corpora. We describe the basic model of TnT, the techniques used for smoothing and for handling unknown words. Furthermore, we present evaluations on two corpora.