Investigating language independence in HMM PoS/MSD-tagging

Error analysis in Croatian morphosyntactic tagging

“…Assigning an incorrect morphosyntactic tag to a wordform given as input occurs for two main reasons (cf. [2]): sparseness of n-gram data in the contextual probability matrix and lack of lexical coverage in the lexical probability matrix. Both of these factors are highly dependent on training corpus size, which could be compensated only by a small margin by using smoothing and unknown word handling methods.…”