BCSE409L Natural

Language Processing
Dr. Biji C. L
Associate Professor
Department of Analytics, SCOPE
Module 5: Part of Speech
Tagging with HMM
Generative Model: HMM
What Is P(class, word)?

• P(class, word) is the joint probability of a word and a part-of-speech (POS) tag (or
class) occurring together.
• P(Noun, “car”) tells us how often the word “car” appears as a noun in the training
data.
Emission Probability
Transition Probability