Comment by foldr

>It's funny. Lately I've been working with NLP systems and in the last few years there are a few really good parts-of-speech taggers that are about 99% accurate. All the ones I know of are based on hidden markov models, which definitely would disappoint Chomsky.

No, it wouldn't disappoint him at all. In fact, one of his earliest works in linguistics discussed how transition probabilities could be used for chunking and categorization. (See http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/research/institutes-and-res... ) It's not as if Chomsky ever presented part of speech tagging as a poverty of the stimulus argument.