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 ifitoccursinconstructionwithbe,andbecouldbereplacedbybecome,feel,look,remain,seemor sound.EXAMPLES:Theconversationbecamedepressing/JJ.<br />
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Thatplaceremainsdepressing/JJ. Thatplaceseemsdepressing/JJ. Thatplacelooksdepressing/JJ. Thatplacesoundsdepressing/JJ. Thatplacefeelsdepressing/JJ.<br />
ifitprecedesanoun,and<strong>the</strong>correspondingverbisintransitive,ordoesnothave<strong>the</strong>samemeaning. EXAMPLES:anappealing/JJface; arevolving/JJfund; awinning/JJsmile; anappetizing/JJdish; *afundthatrevolves *adishthatappetizes *asmilethatwins *afacethatappeals<br />
But: <strong>the</strong>existing/VBGsafeguards;safeguardsthatexist aholding/VBGcompany; amanaging/VBGdirector; acompanythatholdsano<strong>the</strong>rone<br />
Note<strong>the</strong>followingcontrast: <strong>the</strong>ruling/VBGclass; adirectorwhomanages <strong>the</strong>classthatrules<br />
if<strong>the</strong>reisnocorrespondingverb. <strong>the</strong>striking/VBGteachers astriking/JJhat *<strong>the</strong>hatwillstrike <strong>the</strong>teacherswillstrike<br />
Inconnectionwiththispoint,notethatstrikingmeaningdierencesneednotbereectedinterms<strong>of</strong> EXAMPLE: *thoroughgo athoroughgoing/JJinvestigation;<br />
dierentparts<strong>of</strong>speech: EXAMPLES: *outgo <strong>the</strong>outgoing/JJpresident;anoutgoing/JJtype<strong>of</strong>guy;<br />
JJorVBN *outstand anoutstanding/JJrecord;outstanding/JJdebts<br />
areanumber<strong>of</strong>teststhatyoucanusetodecide.Besuretoapply<strong>the</strong>seteststo<strong>the</strong>entiresentence determining<strong>the</strong>part<strong>of</strong>speech<strong>of</strong>aword. containing<strong>the</strong>wordthatyouareunsure<strong>of</strong>,notjust<strong>the</strong>wordinisolation,since<strong>the</strong>contextisimportantin Thedistinctionbetweenadjectives(JJ)andpastparticiples(VBN)is<strong>of</strong>tenverydiculttomake.There<br />
Awordisanadjective(JJ):
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