Cebuano POS Tagger

A Rule-Based Cebuano POS Tagger Using Constraint-Based Grammar

POS Tagset
ADJ
ADV
CONJ
DET
NOUN
NUM
OTH
PART
SYM
VERB

Installation

• pip install cebpostagger
• Inside the project folder python setup.py install

Requirements

• cebstemmer
• cebdict

Functions

• tag_sentence(text='')
  • Accepts a Cebuano sentence and returns a list of tuples in (WORD, TAG) format Output: [(WORD1, TAG), (WORD2, TAG)]

How To Use

from cebpostagger.tagger import tag_sentence

tagged = tag_sentence('Ang bata naligo sa sapa.')
print(tagged)

[('Ang', 'DET'), ('bata', 'NOUN'), ('naligo', 'VERB'), ('sa', 'PART'), ('sapa', 'NOUN'), ('.', 'SYM')]

Evaluation

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