Contents

 
• Authors
• Introduction
• Background and Test Setups
  • Background
  • Test setups and objectives
    • Tagger Evaluation
    • Tagset Evaluation
    • Text Type Evaluation
• Resources and tools
  • Corpora
  • German Tagsets
  • Taggers
    • Taggers used for evaluation
    • Other taggers
• Proposals for practical experiments
  • Methodology: Statistics underlying the assessment
    • Corpus Statistics
    • Error Statistics
  • Tagger Evaluation
  • Tagset evaluation
    • Relevant tagset modifications
    • Overview of phenomena and proposed tests
  • Text type evaluation
• Results
  • Tagger evaluation
    • TreeTagger: Standard test
    • Xerox HMM-tagger: Standard test
    • Interpretation
  • Tagset evaluation
    • Purpose
    • Questions of relevance for tagset design, addressed in the tests
    • Practical setups
    • Xerox HMM-tagger: Noun test
    • Xerox HMM-tagger: Verb test
    • Other tests
  • Text type evaluation
• References
• Description of tested phenomena/problems in detail
  • Proper Names vs. Common Nouns
  • Verb Prefixes
  • Finite vs. Non-finite Verb Forms
  • Personal vs. Reflexive Pronouns
• Additional suggestions for tagset tests
  • Participles vs. Adjectives
  • Indefinite vs. Demonstrative Pronouns and Determiners
  • Indefinite Determiners
  • Adjective vs. Adverb
  • Conjunction vs. Adverb
  • Function Words ``wie'', ``als''
  • Foreign Material
• Overview of German tagset STTS