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

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etaggedasadjectives(JJ)when<strong>the</strong>yareprenominalmodiers,butasadverbs(RB)if<strong>the</strong>ycouldbe Hyphenatedfractionsone-half,three-fourths,seven-eighths,one-and-a-half,seven-and-three-eighthsshould 4PROBLEMATICCASES 8<br />

replacedbydoubleortwice.<br />

CDorNN EXAMPLES:one-half/JJcup; one-half/RB<strong>the</strong>amount;cf.twice/RB<strong>the</strong>amount;double/RB<strong>the</strong>amount cf.afull/JJcup<br />

Sometimes,itisunclearwhe<strong>the</strong>roneiscardinalnumberoranoun.Ingeneral,itshouldbetaggedasa cardinalnumber(CD)evenwhenitssenseisnotclearlythat<strong>of</strong>anumeral. Butifitcouldbepluralizedormodiedbyanadjectiveinaparticularcontext,itisacommonnoun(NN). EXAMPLE: EXAMPLE: one/CD<strong>of</strong><strong>the</strong>bestreasons<br />

In<strong>the</strong>collocationano<strong>the</strong>rone,oneshouldalsobetaggedasacommonnoun(NN). <strong>the</strong>only(good)one/NN<strong>of</strong>itskind<br />

Hyphenatedfractionsone-half,three-fourths,seven-eighths,one-and-a-half,seven-and-three-eighthsshould (cf.<strong>the</strong>only(good)ones/NNS<strong>of</strong><strong>the</strong>irkind)<br />

betaggedasadjectives(JJ)when<strong>the</strong>yareprenominalmodiers,butasadverbs(RB)if<strong>the</strong>ycouldbe replacedbydoubleortwice.<br />

CDorRB EXAMPLES:one-half/JJcup; one-half/RB<strong>the</strong>amount;cf.twice/RB<strong>the</strong>amount;double/RB<strong>the</strong>amount cf.afull/JJcup<br />

Number-numbercombinationsshouldbetaggedasadverbs(RB)if<strong>the</strong>yhave<strong>the</strong>samedistributionas<br />

Hyphenatedfractionsone-half,three-fourths,seven-eighths,one-and-a-half,seven-and-three-eighthsshould adverbs.EXAMPLES:Theywon50{3/RB.(cf.Theywonhandily/RB.) betaggedasadjectives(JJ)when<strong>the</strong>yareprenominalmodiers,butasadverbs(RB)if<strong>the</strong>ycouldbe replacedbydoubleortwice.<br />

DTorCC|seeCCorDT EXAMPLES:one-half/JJcup; one-half/RB<strong>the</strong>amount;cf.twice/RB<strong>the</strong>amount;double/RB<strong>the</strong>amount cf.afull/JJcup<br />

DTorNN Whendeterminersareusedpronominally,i.e.withoutaheadnoun,<strong>the</strong>yshouldstillbetaggedas determiners(DT)|notascommonnouns(NN).

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