2003 · 93 citations · 0 references
ComputingComputer ScienceComputational LinguisticsNatural Language ProcessingText AnalyticsAnnotationInformation ExtractionLanguage ModelingNamed Entity RecognitionPart-of-speech TaggingSupport Vector MachinesHard Margin SvmSoft Margin Svm
In this paper we present a very simple and effective part--of--speech tagger based on Support Vector Machines (SVM). Simplicity and efficiency are achieved by working with linear separators in the primal formulation of SVM, and by using a greedy left-to-right tagging scheme.