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Part-of-Speech Tagging Guidelines for the Penn Treebank ... - IMS

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4PROBLEMATICCASES EXAMPLES: As/INanuntenuredfacultymember,::: It'sjustas/INIthought. 24<br />

EXAMPLES: Butwhenithasameaningakinto`so',itisanadverb(RB).<br />

Bothtypes<strong>of</strong>asoccurin<strong>the</strong>collocationas:::as. Thisoneisnotas/RBgood. I'mnotas/RBhungry.<br />

atallistaggedat/INall/DT. EXAMPLES: as/RBmanyas/INhehas as/RBhungryas/INme<br />

backshouldbetaggedasanadjective(JJ)whenusedasaprenominalmodier,asinbackdoor.<br />

but,thoughusuallyacoordinatingconjunction,isapreposition(IN)whenitmeans\except." bottomshouldbetaggedasanadjective(JJ)whenusedasaprenominalmodier,asinbottomdrawer.<br />

Invery<strong>for</strong>malusage,itcanbeanadverb(RB)with<strong>the</strong>meaning\only." EXAMPLE: everybodybut/INme<br />

Chapter,asinChapter1,isanNN,notanNP. EXAMPLE: Wecanbut/RBtry.<br />

close(r)In<strong>the</strong>collocationclose(r)to,close(r)isanadverb(RB)orcomparativeadverb(RBR).<br />

comingshouldbetaggedasanadjective(JJ)byanalogytoupcoming. EXAMPLE: Wewerecloser/RBRtohome. Wewereclose/RBtohome.<br />

datatriggersvariablenumberagreementandshouldbetaggedaccordingtoitsuseinaparticulartext.If<br />

dearinOhdearandDearmeisanexclamation(UH).InYes,dear,on<strong>the</strong>o<strong>the</strong>rhand,itisusedasatrue <strong>the</strong>agreementpatterncannotbedetermined,tagitasNNjNNS(seeSection5.2<strong>for</strong><strong>the</strong>verticalslash convention).<br />

downshouldbetaggedasanadverb(RB),notasaparticle(RP),incontextsconcerning<strong>the</strong>movement vocativeandshouldbetaggedasanoun(NN).Finally,insalutationslikeDearMartin,itshouldbe taggedasanadjective(JJ).<br />

duein<strong>the</strong>collocationduetoisapreposition(IN).O<strong>the</strong>rwise,itisanadjective(JJ).<br />

<strong>of</strong>currencyorcommodityprices.

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