The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York
An Evaluation of POS Taggers for the CHILDES Corpus
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>This project evaluates four mainstream taggers on a representative collection of child-adult’s dialogues from Child Language Data Exchange System. The nine children’s files from Valian corpora and part of Eve corpora have been manually labeled, and rewrote with LARC tagset. They served as gold standard corpora in the training and testing process. Four taggers: CLAN MOR tagger, ACOPOST trigram tagger, Stanford parser, and Ver. 1.14 of Brill tagger have been tested by 10-fold cross validation. By analyzing what kinds of assumptions the tagger made about category assignment lead to failing, we identify several problematic cases of tagging. By comparing the average error rate of each tagger, we found the size of training data set, and the length of utterance both plays a role to effect tagging accuracy.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Arts
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Master
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Linguistics
- Grantor
- The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York
- Year dc:date.available
- 2016
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Huang, Rui
- Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
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- William Gregory Sakas
Subjects
dc:subject × 7Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/1577
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:academicworks.cuny.edu:gc_etds-2634