A cross-language methodology for corpus part-of-speech tag-set development

This paper examines criteria used in development of Corpus Part-of-Speech tag sets used when PoS-tagging a corpus, that is, enriching a corpus by adding a part-of-speech category label to each word. This requires a tag-set, a list of grammatical category labels; a tagging scheme, practical definitions of each tag or label, showing words and contexts where each tag applies; and a tagger, a program for assigning a tag to each word in the corpus, implementing the tag-set and tagging-scheme in a tag-assignment algorithm.