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In this paper we present a new approach to morphosyntactic tagging of Polish by bringing together Conditional Random Fields and tiered tagging. Our proposal also allows to take advantage of a rich set of morphological features, which resort to an external morphological analyser. The proposed algorithm is implemented as a tagger for Polish. Evaluation of the tagger shows significant improvement in tagging accuracy on two state-of-the-art taggers, namely PANTERA and WMBT.
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Radziszewski, A. (2013). A Tiered CRF Tagger for Polish. In: Bembenik, R., Skonieczny, L., Rybinski, H., Kryszkiewicz, M., Niezgodka, M. (eds) Intelligent Tools for Building a Scientific Information Platform. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 467. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35647-6_16
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