%mor coding and disambiguation

[Gagarina, Natalia]

dear chibolts,

i have a question about disambiguation during tagging (%mor coding). if i
remember correctly, there was an disambiguation option smth like
<disambiguation during tagging> several years ago - does it still exist?
does someone have experience with the %mor tagging of german and, if yes,
how do you disambiguate inflections, parts of speech, etc?

thank you in advance also on behalf of the colleagues,
natalia gagarina

center for general linguistics, berlin, germany

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Natalia,
There is no disambiguation during the running of MOR. Instead,
you use a second program called POST to run the disambiguation. POST
requires the creation of a training file with POSTTRAIN and no one has
yet created this. In general, the German tagger seems very complete,
but I have not yet devoted the time needed to bring it into better fit
with the overall MOR system in the way I have done for English,
Italian, Spanish, Cantonese, and Mandarin. It wouldn't be too hard.
I imagine I could get it fitting better in about a week of work.

--Brian MacWhinney