Abstract
Most stochastic taggers can not resolve some morphological ambiguities that can be resolved only by referring to lexical contexts because they use only contextual probabilities based ontag n-grams and lexical probabilities. Existing lexical rules are effective for resolving such ambiguitiesbecause they can refer to lexical contexts. However, they have two limitations. One is that humanexperts tend to make erroneous rules because they are deterministic rules. Another is that it is hardand time-consuming to acquire rules because they should be manually acquired. In this paper, wepropose context-dependent lexical rules, which are lexical rules based on the statistics of a taggedcorpus, and an ambiguity-driven teaming method, which is the method of automatically acquiring theproposed rules from a tagged corpus. By using the proposed rules, the proposed tagger can partiallyannotate an unseen corpus with high accuracy because it is a kind of memorizing tagger that canannotate a training corpus with 100% accuracy. So, the proposed tagger is useful to improve theaccuracy of a stochastic tagger. And also, it is effectively used for detecting and correcting taggingerrors in a manually tagged corpus. Moreover, the experimental results show that the proposed methodis also effective for English part-of-speech tagging.
