Class guessers for the Xerox tagger assign potential POS [part-of-speech] tags to unknown words according to a surface analysis of the word form. In addition to the common practice of mapping POS tags according to the words' suffixes, this implementation makes use of the case of the initial letter of a word, which is highly significant for POS assignment in German.

The umpires’ ruling precipitated a wild protest . . . and three straight run-scoring hits off Pelfrey that sent him to the showers after a six-run inning.

Give the handle a turn, then pull it.

Just as one is rounded, too late to entirely avoid it, is seen exactly at the turn a single chaise containing a youth and his Sunday girl.