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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howeverisusuallyasimpleadverb(RB). 4PROBLEMATICCASES 26<br />
Itcanalso(rarely)beawh-adverb(WRB). EXAMPLES: Thereseemstobeaproblem,however/RB. However/RB,thattimehasnotyetcome.<br />
latershouldbetaggedasasimpleadverb(RB)ra<strong>the</strong>rthanasacomparativeadverb(RBR),unlessits EXAMPLES: I'lldoithowever/WRBhewantsmeto. However/WRBmuchhewantsto,hecan't.<br />
meaningisclearlycomparative.Ausefuldiagnosticisthat<strong>the</strong>comparativelatercanbeprecededby EXAMPLES: evenorstill.<br />
lessshouldbetaggedasacomparativeadjective(JJR)whenitisusedwithoutaheadnounandit Ifyoudon'thurry,we'llarrive(even)later/RBRthanyourmo<strong>the</strong>r. I'llgetitaroundtoitsoonerorlater/RB.<br />
EXAMPLES: (RBR)whenitsuseisparalleltoo<strong>the</strong>radverbs. correspondsto<strong>the</strong>object<strong>of</strong>averborpreposition.Itshouldbetaggedasacomparativeadverb Youshouldeatless/JJR(interms<strong>of</strong>quantity). (cf.Youshouldeatless/JJRcheese.) Youshouldeatless/RBR(interms<strong>of</strong>frequency). (cf.Youshouldeatrarely/RB.)<br />
Lessshouldbetaggedasacomparativeadjective(JJR)evenwhenitoccurswithoutaheadnoun,as Youshouldworkless/RBR.<br />
inless<strong>of</strong>aproblem. (cf.Youshouldworkharder/RBR.)<br />
littleisanadjective(JJ)inalittlebit,alittlebitmoreandalittlemore. Lessin<strong>the</strong>sense<strong>of</strong>minusshouldbetaggedasacoordinatingconjunction(CC).<br />
manyisaPDTwhenitimmediatelyprecedesanarticle.Ingeneral,however,itisanadjective(JJ),since lotisanoun(NN)inalotandalotmore. itcanbeprecededbyanarticleorapersonalpronoun.<br />
maximum,asinmaximumtolerance,isanoun(NN),notanadjective(JJ).<br />
EXAMPLES: many/PDTa/DTstormynight <strong>the</strong>/DTmany/JJfaces<strong>of</strong>God