ACL Anthology Network (All About NLP) (beta) The Association Of Computational Linguistics Anthology Network |
ACL ID | C10-2001 |
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Title | Towards the Adequate Evaluation of Morphosyntactic Taggers |
Venue | International Conference on Computational Linguistics |
Session | Poster Session |
Year | 2010 |
Authors |
There exists a well-established and almost unanimously adopted measure of tagger performance, namely, accuracy. Although it is perfectly adequate for small tagsets and typical approaches to disambiguation, we show that it is deficient when applied to rich morphological tagsets and propose various extensions designed to better cor- relate with the real usefulness of the tag- ger.