It shouldn't be too hard to find plenty of discussion of work in the 80's. Almost
any web search engine will find something. A paper based on Steven DeRose's
thesis appeared in Computational Linguistics, which should be easy to find.
Almost every major conference proceedings (e.g., Coling, ACL) since the late 80's
have a couple of papers referencing part of speech taggers, and many of these
references point back to the 80's.
- ken
"Mcenery, Tony" wrote:
> Hi Paul
>
> > I did a Ph.D. with Sinclair at Birmingham in the early 90's which
> > revolved around this topic. At that time, there were no efficient POS
> > taggers and so lemmatization could not be carried out on a POS tagged
> > text.
> [Mcenery, Tony]
> Sorry for the anglo-centric joke, but I must say "Shome mishtake
> shurely"? There were, I have good reason to believe, efficient POS taggers
> available for English from the mid-80s. Automated lemmatisation of English was
> also being undertaken around that time (at least). Sorry to nitpick.
>
> Tony