Bico, Maria InêsBaptista, JorgeBatista, FernandoCardeira, Esperança2023-01-242023-01-2420220302-9743http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/18903This paper presents the challenges and solutions adopted to the lemmatization and part-of-speech (PoS) tagging of a corpus of Old Portuguese texts (up to 1525), to pave the way to the implementation of an automatic annotation of these Medieval texts. A highly granular tagset, previously devised for Modern Portuguese, was adapted to this end. A large text (similar to 155 thousand words) was manually annotated for PoS and lemmata and used to train an initial PoS-tagger model. When applied to two other texts, the resulting model attained 91.2% precision with a textual variant of the same text, and 67.4% with a new, unseen text. A second model was then trained with the data provided by the previous three texts and applied to two other unseen texts. The new model achieved a precision of 77.3% and 82.4%, respectively.engAutomatic annotationLemmatizationPart-of-speechTaggingOld portugueseEarly experiments on automatic annotation of Portuguese medieval textsjournal article10.1007/978-3-031-16802-4_44