Links to a wide range of taggers:
CLAWS http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/claws/
RASP http://www.informatics.susx.ac.uk/research/nlp/rasp/
EngCG http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~avoutila/cg/
Connexor http://www.connexor.com/software/tagger/
TreeTagger http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/projekte/corplex/TreeTagger/
Brill tagger http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~brill/
FreeLing http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~nlp/freeling/
TnT http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~thorsten/tnt/
Ratnaparkhi's MXPOST tagger
http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~jamesc/taggers/MXPOST.html
Hans van Halteren???s tagger hvh@let.ru.nl
Acopost HMM-tagger http://acopost.sourceforge.net/
MTB Memory Based Tagger http://ilk.uvt.nl/mbt/
There are yet more taggers, eg
Qtag http://www.english.bham.ac.uk/staff/omason/software/qtag.html
Xerox HMM tagger
http://www.xrce.xerox.com/competencies/content-analysis/fsnlp/tagger.en.html
... and also adapted versions of some of the above, eg our Amalgam-tagger was just the result of re-training Brill's tagger with a range of rival corpora to produce taggers to apply alternative tagsets used in Brown / ICE / London-Lund / LOB / PoW / SEC / UPenn corpora ...
... and others have extended or reimplemented the software, e.g.
Mu-TBL generalised transformation-based learning taggers
http://www.ling.gu.se/~lager/
GPoSTTL http://www.imsc.res.in/~golam/gposttl/
If you want open-source, extensible taggers with documentation and even
tutorial, try NLTK:
NLTK Python versions of regexp, n-gram, backoff, Brill, HMM taggers
http://nltk.sourceforge.net/
CLAWS http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/claws/
RASP http://www.informatics.susx.ac.uk/research/nlp/rasp/
EngCG http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~avoutila/cg/
Connexor http://www.connexor.com/software/tagger/
TreeTagger http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/projekte/corplex/TreeTagger/
Brill tagger http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~brill/
FreeLing http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~nlp/freeling/
TnT http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~thorsten/tnt/
Ratnaparkhi's MXPOST tagger
http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~jamesc/taggers/MXPOST.html
Hans van Halteren???s tagger hvh@let.ru.nl
Acopost HMM-tagger http://acopost.sourceforge.net/
MTB Memory Based Tagger http://ilk.uvt.nl/mbt/
There are yet more taggers, eg
Qtag http://www.english.bham.ac.uk/staff/omason/software/qtag.html
Xerox HMM tagger
http://www.xrce.xerox.com/competencies/content-analysis/fsnlp/tagger.en.html
... and also adapted versions of some of the above, eg our Amalgam-tagger was just the result of re-training Brill's tagger with a range of rival corpora to produce taggers to apply alternative tagsets used in Brown / ICE / London-Lund / LOB / PoW / SEC / UPenn corpora ...
... and others have extended or reimplemented the software, e.g.
Mu-TBL generalised transformation-based learning taggers
http://www.ling.gu.se/~lager/
GPoSTTL http://www.imsc.res.in/~golam/gposttl/
If you want open-source, extensible taggers with documentation and even
tutorial, try NLTK:
NLTK Python versions of regexp, n-gram, backoff, Brill, HMM taggers
http://nltk.sourceforge.net/