Middle Low German¶
Middle Low German or Middle Saxon is a language that is the descendant of Old Saxon and the ancestor of modern Low German. It served as the international lingua franca of the Hanseatic League. It was spoken from about 1100 to 1600, or 1200 to 1650. (Source: Wikipedia)
POS Tagging¶
The POS taggers were trained by NLTK’s models on the ReN training set.
1–2–gram backoff tagger¶
In [1]: from cltk.tag.pos import POSTag
In [2]: tagger = POSTag('middle_low_german')
In [3]: tagger.tag_ngram_12_backoff('Jck Johannes Veghe preister verwarer vnde voirs tender des Juncfrouwen kloisters to Mariendale')
Out[3]: [('Jck', 'PPER'),
('Johannes', 'NE'),
('Veghe', 'NE'),
('preister', 'NA'),
('verwarer', 'NA'),
('vnde', 'KON'),
('voirs', 'NA'),
('tender', 'NA'),
('des', 'DDARTA'),
('Juncfrouwen', 'NA'),
('kloisters', 'NA'),
('to', 'APPR'),
('Mariendale', 'NE')]