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

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5GENERALTAGGINGCONVENTIONS EXAMPLES: acotton/NNshirt 32<br />

Section4.1|NNorRB). Ano<strong>the</strong>risthatnounsthatareusedasadverbialmodiersaretaggedasnouns,notadverbs(see <strong>the</strong>nearestbook/NNstore<br />

5.2Verticalslashconvention EXAMPLE: Thisweek,Iworkmornings/NNSonly.<br />

Linguisticorextralinguisticcontextgenerallyresolves<strong>the</strong>question<strong>of</strong>whattagtoassigntoatoken.<br />

Never<strong>the</strong>less,uncertaintiescanarise.Ra<strong>the</strong>rthanattemptingt<strong>of</strong>orciblyresolvesuchuncertainties,with EXAMPLES: Sampling/NNdatacanbefull<strong>of</strong>errors. Sampling/VBGdatacanbetime-consuming.<br />

verticalslash(thischaracterappearsasaninterruptedslashon<strong>the</strong>keyboard).Forinstance,in<strong>the</strong>absence <strong>the</strong>attendantrisk<strong>of</strong>inconsistency,youshouldsimplyrecord<strong>the</strong>mbyseparating<strong>the</strong>relevanttagsbya <strong>of</strong>disambiguatingcontext,examplessuchas<strong>the</strong>followingshouldbetaggedusing<strong>the</strong>verticalslash. EXAMPLES: TheDuchesswasguarded/JJjVBNlastnight. Sampling/NNjVBGdatacanbefun. TheDuchesswasentertaining/JJjVBGlastnight.<br />

5.3Capitalizedwords Ifaseries<strong>of</strong>wordsiscapitalizedaspart<strong>of</strong>aname,<strong>the</strong>capitalizedwordsshouldbetaggedaspropernouns (NPorNPS). EXAMPLES: Kansas/NPCity/NP Mount/NPEverest/NP North/NPCarolina/NP Constitution/NPAvenue/NP<br />

Supreme/NPCourt/NPJustice/NP <strong>the</strong>/DTFulton/NPCounty/NPGrand/NPJury/NP<br />

O<strong>the</strong>rwise,titlesshouldbetaggedasif<strong>the</strong>ywererunningtext. <strong>the</strong>/DTUnited/NPStates/NPS A/NPTale/NP<strong>of</strong>/INTwo/NPCities/NPS<br />

ifasinglewordorseries<strong>of</strong>wordsiscapitalizedasaresult<strong>of</strong>gurativespeech,itshouldbetaggedasifit Ifasinglewordiscapitalizedbecauseitisusedasatitle,itshouldbetaggedasapropernoun(NP).But weren'tcapitalized. EXAMPLES: Mo<strong>the</strong>r/NP,areyoucoming? HewasnogoodatrebellingagainstSociety/NN.

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