Part-of-Speech Tagging Guidelines for the Penn Treebank ... - IMS
Part-of-Speech Tagging Guidelines for the Penn Treebank ... - IMS
Part-of-Speech Tagging Guidelines for the Penn Treebank ... - IMS
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4PROBLEMATICCASES 14<br />
However,note: EXAMPLES:Chinese/JJcabbage;Chinese/JJcooking<br />
EXAMPLE: Welsh/JJrarebit;Welsh/JJpoetry<br />
Thetwoparts<strong>of</strong>compoundssuchasWestGermanorNorthKoreanshouldbetaggedidentically|ei<strong>the</strong>r anEnglish/NPsentence<br />
asJJorNP. (cf.asentence<strong>of</strong>English/NP)<br />
EXAMPLE: <strong>the</strong>West/JJGerman/JJmark<br />
Act,aswellascompoundscontainingpropernounsas<strong>the</strong>irsecondconstituent,suchasmid-Marchor Hyphenatedcompoundpropernounsactingasmodiers,suchasGramm-Rudmanin<strong>the</strong>Gramm-Rudman He'saWest/NPGerman/NP.<br />
JJorRB Whilemostadverbs<strong>for</strong>medfromadjectivesendin-ly,notalldo.Thecrucialcriterioniswhe<strong>the</strong>raword non-NATO,shouldbetaggedaspropernouns(NP)ra<strong>the</strong>rthanasadjectives(JJ).<br />
modiesanoun,inwhichcaseitisanadjective(JJ),oranon-noun,inwhichcaseitisanadverb(RB).<br />
Vexingcasesariseinconnectionwithcompoundadjectivesthatarespelledastwowords,suchasmild EXAMPLES:rapid/JJgrowth/NN<br />
avored.Tagbothparts<strong>of</strong>suchsequencesasJJ|thus,mild/JJavored/JJ. rapid/RBgrowing/VBGplants<br />
<strong>the</strong>unacceptability<strong>of</strong>makelifesimply. JJorVBG Takecarenottotagpredicateadjectivesasadverbs.Thus,inmakelifesimple,simpleisanadjective;cf.<br />
make.Thereareanumber<strong>of</strong>teststhatyoucanusetodecide.Besuretoapply<strong>the</strong>seteststo<strong>the</strong>entire Thedistinctionbetweenadjectives(JJ)andgerunds/presentparticiples(VBG)is<strong>of</strong>tenverydicultto<br />
Awordisanadjective(JJ): sentencecontaining<strong>the</strong>wordthatyouareunsure<strong>of</strong>,notjust<strong>the</strong>wordinisolation,since<strong>the</strong>contextis importantindetermining<strong>the</strong>part<strong>of</strong>speech<strong>of</strong>aword. ifitisgradable|thatis,ifitcanbeprecededbyadegreeadverblikevery,orifitallows<strong>the</strong> <strong>for</strong>mation<strong>of</strong>acomparative.<br />
if<strong>the</strong>reisacorrespondingun-<strong>for</strong>mwith<strong>the</strong>oppositemeaning. EXAMPLE: Hertalkwasmoreinteresting/JJthan<strong>the</strong>irs. Hertalkwasveryinteresting/JJ.<br />
EXAMPLE: anuninteresting/JJconversation<br />
aninteresting/JJconversation;
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