[Corpora-List] History of POS tagging

[Serge Sharoff]

I think we're getting into the 'Four Yorkshiremen' sketch.  
This is what we dug up as a reference for our tagger:
@Article{nikolaeva58,

  author = 	 {Nikolaeva, T.N.},

  title = 	 {Soviet developments in machine translation: {Russian} sentence analysis},

  journal = 	 {Mechanical Translation},

  year = 	 1958,

  volume = 	 5,

  number = 	 2,

  pages = 	 {51--59},

  url = 	 {http://www.mt-archive.info/MT-1958-Nikolaeva.pdf}
}

however, I'm sure any early MT system not based on a full-form lexicon used a tagger of some sort.
Serge

-----Original Message-----
From: corpora-bounces at uib.no on behalf of Diana Santos
Sent: Fri 27/02/2009 16:27
To: CORPORA
Subject: [Corpora-List]  History of POS tagging

 
Before I get more answers to my question 


>> the first instance of POS tagger in the 
>> literature was Ken
>> Church's, as a first step towards full parsing of English.

let me note that if I had read with enough attention Stig Johansson's contribution to the Corpus Linguistics: An International Handbook, I would have had plenty of material in his section 6.1 Part-of-speech tagging ...

So the current winner is:

Greene, Barbara B. & Gerald M. Rubin. "Automated Grammatical Tagging of English". Providence, R.I.: Department of Linguistics, Brown University. 1971.

I am still interested in earlier documents/papers/reports if they exist, in any language!

Thanks again
Diana

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