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MUFLEH SALEM M. ALQAHTANI

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Professor of Theoretical Linguistics (Phonology)

اللغات وعلومها
Department of Linguistics, College of Language Sciences
المنشورات
مقال فى مجلة
2019

Looking into the Operational Modalities Adopted in Some of the POS Tagging Tools in Identification of Contextual Part-of-Speech of Words in Texts

Maktabi, Kesavan Vadakalur Elumalai,Niladri Sekhar Das , Mufleh Salem M. Alqahtani , Anas . 2019

Annotation Tagging Part-of-Speech Morphology Syntax Semantics Contexts

Part-of-speech (POS) tagging is an indispensable method of text processing. The main aim is to assign part-of-speech to words after considering their actual contextual syntactic-cum-semantic roles in a piece of text where they occur (Siemund & Claridge 1997). This is a useful strategy in language processing, language technology, machine learning, machine translation, and computational linguistics as it generates a kind of output that enables a system to work with natural language texts with greater accuracy and success. Part-of-speech tagging is also known as ‘grammatical annotation’ and ‘word category disambiguation’ in some area of linguistics where analysis of form and function of words are important avenues for better comprehension and application of texts. Since the primary task of POS tagging involves a process of assigning a tag to each word, manually or automatically, in a piece of natural language text, it has to pay adequate attention to the contexts where words are used. This is a tough challenge for a system as it normally fails to know how word carries specific linguistic information in a text and what kind of larger syntactic frames it requires for its operation. The present paper takes up this issue into consideration and tries to critically explore how some of the well-known POS tagging systems are capable of handling this kind of challenge and if these POS tagging systems are at all successful in assigning appropriate POS tags to words without accessing information from extratextual domains. The novelty of the paper lies in its attempt for looking into some of the POS tagging schemes proposed so far to see if the systems are actually successful in dealing with the complexities involved in tagging words in texts. It also checks if the performance of these systems is better than manual POS tagging and verifies if information and insights gathered from such enterprises are at all useful for enhancing our understanding about identity and function of words used in texts. All these are addressed in this paper with reference to some of the POS taggers available to us. Moreover, the paper tries to see how a POS tagged text is useful in various applications thereby creating a sense of awareness about multifunctionality of tagged texts among language users.

نوع عمل المنشور
Research Article
رقم المجلد
8
رقم الانشاء
6
مجلة/صحيفة
International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature
الصفحات
92-102
مزيد من المنشورات
publications

This research discusses the underapplication opacity, namely counterbleeding, of non-local compensatory lengthening in
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تم النشر فى:
Sage Publications
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This study examines how association line crossing in prosodic structure, as well as a bad sonority contour triggered by a glottal approximant in postconsonantal position, is avoided by non-local…

بواسطة Mufleh Salem M. Alqahtani
2023
تم النشر فى:
Yarmouk University
publications

This research investigates how the avoidance of initial gemination in Maltese is motivated by conformity to the Obligatory Contour Principle (OCP) and the Strict Layer Hypothesis (SLH) in light of…

بواسطة Mufleh Salem M. Alqahtani
2023
تم النشر فى:
Springer Nature