Paper Title
Morpheme Based Parts Of Speech Tagger For Kannada Language

Abstract
Abstract- Parts of speech tagging is the process of assigning appropriate parts of speech tags to the words in a given text. The critical or crucial information needed for tagging a word come from its internal structure rather from its neighboring words. The internal structure of a word comprises of its morphological features and grammatical information. This paper presents a morpheme based parts of speech tagger for Kannada language. This proposed work uses hierarchical tag set for assigning tags. The system is tested on some Kannada words taken from EMILLE corpus. Experimental result shows that the performance of the proposed system is above 90%. Index Terms- Hierarchical tag set, morphological analyzer, natural language processing, paradigms, parts of speech.