part-of-speech

Strategies for recognizing proper nouns in NLP

I'm interested in learning more about Natural Language Processing (NLP) and am curious if there are currently any strategies for recognizing proper nouns in a text that aren't based on dictionary recognition? Also, could anyone explain or link to resources that explain the current dictionary-based methods? Who are the authoritative exper...

Looking for any free tagged english corpus(es)

Does anyone know of any free (licensed free for commercial use) tagged English corpus(es) that can be used to train a part of speech (POS) tagger? The only ones I have seen online seem to start in the thousands for commercial use. Any help would be appreciated, thanks. ...

Transformation-Based Part-of-Speech Tagging(Brill Tagging)

What are the weaknesses and strengths of the Brill Tagger? Can you suggest some possible improvements for the tagger? ...