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Wordclass tagging is the most popular and well-established kind of linguistic annotation to be applied to text, for two reasons.1 Firstly, automatic taggers are a well researched and well understood type of software (cf. Chapter 2) and it is possible to tag large amounts of text to a reasonably high degree of accuracy. Secondly, wordclass tagging is generally considered to be a useful first stage annotation applied to text as a preliminary to other activities in natural language processing (NLP).
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Leech, G., Smith, N. (1999). The Use of Tagging. In: van Halteren, H. (eds) Syntactic Wordclass Tagging. Text, Speech and Language Technology, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9273-4_3
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