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A file containing the last three characters of words from Roget's Thesaurus was created. Every entry was classified as belonging to one of the five parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions. The machine learning system LERS induced rules from this file. The paper describes this experiment. Two interesting regularities of the English language were discovered. Moreover, using a set of rules induced by LERS it is feasible to recognize part of speech of a word on the basis of its last three characters with the expected error rate of 26.71 %.
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Grzymala-Busse, J.W., Old, L.J. (1997). A machine learning experiment to determine part of speech from word-endings. In: Raś, Z.W., Skowron, A. (eds) Foundations of Intelligent Systems. ISMIS 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1325. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63614-5_48
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