def get_pos_tagger(self):
        regexp_tagger = RegexpTagger(
            [(r'^-?[0-9]+(.[0-9]+)?$', 'CD'),   # cardinal numbers
             (r'(The|the|A|a|An|an)$', 'AT'),   # articles
             (r'.*able$', 'JJ'),                # adjectives
             (r'.*ness$', 'NN'),                # nouns formed from adjectives
             (r'.*ly$', 'RB'),                  # adverbs
             (r'.*s$', 'NNS'),                  # plural nouns
             (r'.*ing$', 'VBG'),                # gerunds
             (r'.*ed$', 'VBD'),                 # past tense verbs
             (r'.*', 'NN')                      # nouns (default)
        ])
        brown_train = brown.tagged_sents(categories='news')
        unigram_tagger = UnigramTagger(brown_train, backoff=regexp_tagger)
        bigram_tagger = BigramTagger(brown_train, backoff=unigram_tagger)
        trigram_tagger = TrigramTagger(brown_train, backoff=bigram_tagger)