Quizz 05: POS Tagging

This quizz covers material from the fifth lecture on POS Tagging. Recall the Universal Part of Speech tagset includes the following tags: 
ADJ	ADP	ADV	
CCONJ SCONJ	 
NOUN PROPN PRON	
DET	 NUM	 
VERB AUX	
PART PUNCT SYM INTJ X

  1. What would be the perplexity of the task of POS given a uniform distribution over the universal POS tagset?


  2. List 3 types of knowledge sources that can help in performing Parts of Speech tagging:





  3. Give an example word for each of the following classes:

    ADJ
    AUX
    PRON
    CCONJ
    ADV

  4. Tag the following sentence in the format "John/PROPN eats/VERB an/DET apple/NOUN ./PUNCT"


    County     officials     in     Maryland     miscalculated     how     many     ballots


    they     would     need     on     Election     Day     --     and     quickly


    ran     out     in     more     than     a     dozen     precincts     .





  5. Give an example of word that can be tagged by using morphological clues.







  6. Give an example of sentence where an ambiguous word can be tagged using syntactic clues.








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