From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2008-05-25T01:41:01+09:00
Subject: Re: #plural? or #singular?

>
> I can see data. (noun plural)
> I can see Data. (proper noun singular)
> England is a country. (proper noun singular)
> England are bound to lose the match. (proper noun singular) (nobody is perfect).
> English is a language. (proper noun singular)
> The English are eccentric. (noun plural)
> Languages (noun plural) are just a big mess (noun singular).
Impressive, I have to admit :)

>
> Parts-of-speech tagging uses a Bayesian decision model, requiring
> training on a set of human-tagged text.
> There are large amounts of texts available for many languages, such
> as newspaper articles.
> The authors of tree-taggers claim about 96 % correct tagging somewhere
> in the docs ( can't find it right now).
> It's also fast - you can tag an entire novel in just a few seconds -
> and it's available for several major languages, not just English.
Even more so !!! Thanx for sharing
R.