Table 4. Performance of the proposed POS tagging approach in terms of precision and recall.

Domains No of words No of tagged words Correctly tagged words Precision Accuracy Recall/Sensitivity
News 244 231 223 96.54% 91.39% 94.67%
Literature 404 367 343 93.46% 84.90% 90.84%
History 566 524 492 93.89% 86.93% 92.58%
Politics 420 391 377 96.42% 89.76% 93.10%
Science 286 264 251 95.08% 87.76% 92.41%