Corpora: Brill's vs. CLAWS

From: Veronika Koller (Veronika.Koller@isis.wu-wien.ac.at)
Date: Mon Jul 16 2001 - 15:23:42 MET DST

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    Dear list members,
    without wanting to trigger a bi-partisan discussion, I would still like to
    inquire about the advantages of Brill's tagger over CLAWS tagging service
    or vice versa. The situation at our department leading to this question is
    the following:
    So far, we have only worked with Cobuild's Bank of English and
    self-compiled corpora, using WordSmith Tools as a concordance program for
    the latter. Currently, however, we are planning to obtain several other
    corpora such as the BNC (incl. SARA), the Wolverhampton Corpus of Business
    English (by the way: what kind of concordance program would work best with
    that?) and ICE-GB (incl. ICE-CUP). We have had texts tagged by CLAWS and
    the result proved to be quite useful for our purposes. Since we would very
    much like to streamline our software resources as much as possible (which
    doesn't seem to be much anyway), we'd rather know about the respective
    (dis)advantages in advance. A helpful starting point might e.g. be if
    someone could provide a sample text tagged with the help of Brill's.

    Your help will be much appreciated and a summary will be posted.

    Regards,
    Veronika Koller
    Mag.a Veronika Koller
    Department of English/Business English
    Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
    Augasse 9
    A-1090 Vienna
    Tel.: 43/1/31336-4068
    Fax: 43/1/31336-747



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