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

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4PROBLEMATICCASES 25. 24. TO SYM to Symbol 7<br />

29. 30. 28. 27. 26. VBG VBN VBD VB UH Verb,gerundorpresentparticiple Verb,pastparticiple Verb,pasttense Verb,base<strong>for</strong>m Interjection<br />

31. 32. VBP VBZ Verb,non-3rdpersonsingularpresent<br />

36. 35. 34. 33. WRB WP$ WP WDT Wh-adverb Possessivewh-pronoun Wh-pronoun Verb,3rdpersonsingularpresent Wh-determiner<br />

Thissectiondiscussesdiculttaggingdecisions.Section4.1discussesparts<strong>of</strong>speechthatareeasily 4confusedandguidelinesonhowtotagsuchcases.Section4.2containsanalphabeticallist<strong>of</strong>specic problematicwordsandcollocations. Problematiccases<br />

4.1Confusingparts<strong>of</strong>speech CCorDT When<strong>the</strong>yare<strong>the</strong>rstmembers<strong>of</strong><strong>the</strong>doubleconjunctionsboth:::and,ei<strong>the</strong>r:::orandnei<strong>the</strong>r:::nor, Thissectiondiscussesparts<strong>of</strong>speechthatareeasilyconfusedandgivesguidelinesonhowtotagsuchcases.<br />

both,ei<strong>the</strong>randnei<strong>the</strong>raretaggedascoordinatingconjunctions(CC),notasdeterminers(DT). EXAMPLES:Ei<strong>the</strong>r/DTchildcouldsing. But: Ei<strong>the</strong>r/CCaboycouldsingor/CCagirlcoulddance. Ei<strong>the</strong>r/CCaboyor/CCagirlcouldsing.<br />

nor. Beawarethatei<strong>the</strong>rornei<strong>the</strong>rcansometimesfunctionasdeterminers(DT)evenin<strong>the</strong>presence<strong>of</strong>oror Ei<strong>the</strong>r/CCaboyor/CCgirlcouldsing.<br />

CDorJJ Number-numbercombinationsshouldbetaggedasadjectives(JJ)if<strong>the</strong>yhave<strong>the</strong>samedistributionas EXAMPLE: Ei<strong>the</strong>r/DTboyor/CCgirlcouldsing.<br />

adjectives.EXAMPLES:a50{3/JJvictory(cf.ahandy/JJvictory)

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