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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Section,asinSection1,isanNN,notanNP. 4PROBLEMATICCASES 30<br />
sideshouldbetaggedasanadjective(JJ)whenusedasaprenominalmodier,asinsidedoor. seetFitisanadjective(JJ)in<strong>the</strong>expressiontoseet.<br />
soin<strong>the</strong>sense<strong>of</strong>\tosuchadegree"isanadverb(RB).<br />
In<strong>the</strong>collocationssoastoandsothatandwhenitmeanssothatbyitself,soisasubordinating EXAMPLES: Hewasso/RBirresponsibleweredhim. So/RBmanypiecesarebrokenthatweneedanewone.<br />
conjunction(IN). EXAMPLES: Ileftearlyso/INthat/INIwouldcatchmytrain. Heleft<strong>the</strong>housequietlyso/INas/INnottowakeanyone.<br />
Soin<strong>the</strong>sense<strong>of</strong>\<strong>the</strong>re<strong>for</strong>e"isanadverb(RB)ra<strong>the</strong>rthanasubordinatingconjunction(IN). Igavehimmoneyso/INhecouldbuyit.<br />
soonerIfitsmeaningisnotclearlycomparative,soonershouldbetaggedasasimpleadverb(RB)ra<strong>the</strong>r EXAMPLE: thanasacomparativeadverb(RBR).Ausefuldiagnosticisthat<strong>the</strong>comparativesoonercanbe Hewasunhappy,so/RBheaskedtobetransferred.<br />
precededbyeven.<br />
suchSinceanynounphrasecancontainonlyonedeterminer,<strong>the</strong>factthatitcanoccurtoge<strong>the</strong>rwitha EXAMPLES: Let'shurry,sowecanarrive(even)sooner/RBRthanyourmo<strong>the</strong>r. I'llgetitaroundtoitsooner/RBorlater.<br />
Table,asinTable1,isanNN,notanNP. However,whenitprecedesadeterminer,itshouldbetaggedasapredeterminer(PDT). determiner(asin<strong>the</strong>onlysuchcase)meansthatitshouldgenerallybetaggedasanadjective(JJ).<br />
<strong>the</strong>irs,asinThat's<strong>the</strong>irs,isaPP,notaPP$. thatwhenusedtointroducerelativeclausesisaWDT,notanIN.<br />
<strong>the</strong>ncanhaveastrictlytemporalsense(\atthatpointintime")oramoregeneralsense(\inthatcase"). EXAMPLE: Inei<strong>the</strong>rcase,itisanadverb(RB).Bothusescanoccurin<strong>the</strong>samesentence.<br />
Thencanalsobeanadjective(JJ). Then/RBI'llhavetodoitbe<strong>for</strong>e<strong>the</strong>n/RB.<br />
EXAMPLE: The<strong>the</strong>n/JJgovernor<strong>of</strong>Massachusetts
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