POS Tagger

Annotations Specification

ANNOTATION

NAME

EXAMPLE

NN

Noun

dog man

NNS

Plural noun

dogs men

NNP

Proper noun

London Alex

NNPS

Plural proper noun

Smiths

VB

Base form verb

be

VBP

Present form verb

throw

VBZ

Present form (3rd person)

throws

VBG

Gerund form verb

throwing

VBD

Past tense verb

threw

VBN

Past participle verb

thrown

MD

Modal verb

can shall will may must ought

JJ

Adjective

big fast

JJR

Comparative adjective

bigger

JJS

Superlative adjective

biggest

RB

Adverb

not quickly closely

RBR

Comparative adverb

less-closely faster

RBS

Superlative adverb

fastest

DT

Determiner

the a some both

PDT

Predeterminer

all quite

PRP

Personal Pronoun

I you he she

PRP$

Possessive Pronoun

I you he she

POS

Possessive ending

's

IN

Preposition

of by in

PR

Particle

up off

TO

to

to

WDT

Wh-determiner

which that whatever whichever

WP

Wh-pronoun

who whoever whom what

WP$

Wh-possessive

whose

WRB

Wh-adverb

how where

EX

Expletive there

there

CC

Coordinating conjugation

& and nor or

CD

Cardinal Numbers

1 7 77 one

LS

List item marker

1 B C One

UH

Interjection

ah oh oops

FW

Foreign Words

viva mon toujours

,

Comma

,

:

Mid-sent punct

: ; ...

.

Sent-final punct.

. ! ?

(

Left parenthesis

) } ]

)

Right parenthesis

( { [

#

Pound sign

#

$

Currency symbols

$ £ ¥

SYM

Other symbols

+ * / < >

EM

Emojis & emoticons

:)

Notes

  • Typically, those annotations are compatible with Penn Treebank POS tags since the latter's set was used to train the lexicon, and the rules set, and being used to test POS tagger.

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