Dear #DigitalHumanities and #corpus_linguistics colleagues: In order to help a colleague with a project application that may also help a project I'm involved with, I'm wondering what, if any, arguments there are for #part-of-speech-tagging as an accessibility feature? Does anyone have an example of how this can help people with non-normative functionalities?
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@elmerot
The only argument I could think of would be reducing ambiguity by using POS tagging which could make reading and understanding texts more accessible but that's just an intuition @corpuslinguistics@linguistics
@elmerot@corpuslinguistics@linguistics Here is a core linguist with a Phd thesis on PoS and corpora. What are non-normative functionalities ?? Do you think that pos tagging is normative ?? No, it is descriptive. And an easy example: compare " the man is Adjective" vs. "the woman is Adjective" or replace the nouns with German, French, Afghan, worker, teacher, black, politician etc. etc.
Maybe nobody answered because of the "normative f." - a bit intransparent and vague.
@PetraSteiner
Thank you; it seems I was unclear. I meant as in helping for example blind people in some way that I simply cannot think of because I do not have that issue myself.