Questions tagged [parts-of-speech]
The traditional set of eight word classes: Noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, pronoun, and interjection.
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Are nouns ever a closed class?
For pretty much any grammatical category, I can think of a language in which it's a closed class. Japanese has closed classes of verbs and (verb-like) adjectives, for example, while Swahili has a ...
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Can the shift in grammatical usage of “an X-ese [person]” be explained linguistically?
While reading An Introduction to Information Theory by John R. Pierce, I was distracted by a linguistic artifact (on page 251 of the second edition):
We can tell our friends apart, […] but we find ...
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Tests for determining NP status
What are the tests for determining whether a noun is part of a full NP or if it is simply a noun?
I'm aware of tests for nounhood generally (plural, formation of an NP with a or the, modification by ...
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How should “at some time” be tagged in Universal Dependencies framework?
I want to tag a sentence
Jones was unemployed at some time before he graduated.
with UD tags. I'm not sure how to tag at some time.
Stanford parser suggests the reading:
case (time-6, at-4)
det (...
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Tool for manually POS tagging texts
I'm interested if there is a text or set of texts where each word is correctly POS tagged.
I know there are algorithms that can associate POS tags to the words, but there are always many of ...
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How to decrease CRF++ feature function set?
I have a problem with the CRF++ Package. CRF++ cannot handle large training parts-of-speech corpora (large tagset and large number of words).
In fact, the number of feature functions automatically ...
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Any name for this proposition? : Sounds reflects P.O.S. of the word
I am using natural language processing/speech recognition techniques so that I can provide better tools to learn English pronounciation.
While research on relevant topics, I found this fact:
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Does “a little” (en) correspond to the same grammatical class as “ein wenig” (de)?
If you want to say in German, "I speak a little German", you would say,
Ich spreche ein wenig Deutsch.
The phrase "ein wenig" is reminiscent of the English phrase "a little", but what is ...
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Slot filling corpora
I was wondering if anyone knows of slot filling corpora such as ATIS. I tried finding ATIS but since I am not a member of LDC I couldnt get access to it. Do you know of any place where I can find a ...
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Part of speech of the word 'board' when in a compound word
When splitting the compound adjective 'onboard', there are two words; 'on' and 'board'.
'On' is a preposition, but what part of speech is 'board'?
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A question about Carnie's subcategories and features
From Carnie's "Syntax: A Generative Introduction":
This notation is not explicitly explained. What does it mean? (I'll write my conjecture below)
Recall that T is defined as follows:
So I guess the ...
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How to extract Subject, Object, Verb through a parser
For my project, I need to extract Subject, Object and Verb from the sentence. I have read that, LFG F structure is what I need. I am using Stanford NLP package. I couldnt find out how to do that in ...
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Preposition vs. Subordinating Conjunction in English
The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (Huddleston & Pullum), which was published in 2002, expanded the scope of the part of speech "preposition" to such a great extent that a significant ...
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How do you distinguish verbs, nouns, and adjectives in Chinese?
I am messing around with a conlang and trying to figure out how to write sentences. Man this is hard, there are so many possibilities and I don't know where to start.
But basically, I am looking at ...
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Is this phrase or clause a clause?
Is "lefty loosey, righty tighty" a clause?
Or what is "lefty loosey, righty tighty"?
Or what part of speech is "lefty loosey, righty tighty"?
Or what part of speech is ...
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How to extract Subject-Verb-Object from a sentence?
Given a corpus of sentences, is there a way to extract subject-verb-object triplets? What is the state-of-art in detecting SVO triplets?
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Is there any free, single-word wordlist with CLAWS7 part-of-speech tags?
I am looking for a wordlist which includes single-word entries and their part-of-speech tags in UCREL CLAWS7 format.
The list must be comprised of scientifically collected data, for example words ...
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Adjectives/verbs being used as nouns: the trend grows?
"I want a job with a social connect" , using a verb connect for
the noun connection.
"It's a fail!" , using the verb fail instead of the noun failure.
"Acme is a multinational corporate" , using the ...
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How do distinctive features work?
I'm currently working my way through a book on syntax by Andrew Carnie, and I've come up against something that isn't entirely clear to me. In a chapter about syntactic categories, Carnie writes:
One ...
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Where is the boundary between an adjective and a noun adjunct?
My working model is thus: An adjective should be flexible in that it can describe a variety of nouns. A noun adjunct looks like an adjective but can only be connected to a limited number of nouns. So, ...
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What part of speech is a letter?
I wanted to know what part of speech a letter might be or I wanted to see if I understand letters. Do people ask this question in this place? Or am I in the place where people would ask this?
I asked ...
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Is duck typing valid to identify parts of speech?
Let's say we're trying to identify a word or a phrase and on the surface it seems a bit strange and to not fit into an easily identified category/part of speech (POS).
Is it valid to say "If it walks ...
