@article{HorbachThaterSteffenetal.2015, author = {Andrea Horbach and Stefan Thater and Diana Steffen and Peter M. Fischer and Andreas Witt and Manfred Pinkal}, title = {Internet Corpora: A Challenge for Linguistic Processing}, series = {Datenbank-Spektrum}, volume = {15}, number = {1}, issn = {1618-2162}, doi = {10.1007/s13222-014-0172-z}, url = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-43565}, pages = {41 -- 47}, year = {2015}, abstract = {Natural language Processing tools are mostly developed for and optimized on newspaper texts, and often Show a substantial performance drop when applied to other types of texts such as Twitter feeds, Chat data or Internet forum posts. We explore a range of easy-to-implement methods of adapting existing part-of-speech taggers to improve their performance on Internet texts. Our results show that these methods can improve tagger performance substantially.}, language = {en} }