How to apply pos_tag_sents() to pandas dataframe efficiently

Question

In situations where you wish to POS tag a column of text stored in a pandas dataframe with 1 sentence per row the majority of implementations on SO use the apply method

Answer 1

Assign this to your new column instead:

dfData['POSTags'] = pos_tag_sents(dfData['SourceText'].apply(word_tokenize).tolist())