1. What are the advantages of a tagged corpus?

2. What is a probabilistic and a rule-based tagger?

3. What is the role of the lexicon in tagging?

4. What types of words are the hardest to tag?

5. Useful tags:

6. What is a parser?  Which is harder -- tagging or parsing? Why?

7. What are the advantages of using a parsed text?

8. In what way is a tagged corpus a "two-edged sword"?

9. Discuss the issue of "ad-hoc" annotation

10. What is the difference between a manual, computer-assisted, and automatic tagger?  What are the benefits and drawbacks of each one?

11. Annotating documents