To: corpora@hd.uib.no
From: Yen Ketty on Fri, Jan 10, 1997 9:15 AM
Subject: Summary -- POS list from Word Tree Bank
Dear netter,
The following is a list of responses that I
received from my query -- POS list from
Word Tree Bank (posted on 12-06-96).
Thank you for those who responded.
Ketty Gann
Booz.Allen & Hamilton Inc.
Linthicum, MD
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Original Query
Dear netter,
I've learned that there is a standard Part-of-Speech list from
Word Tree Bank. I need that list to tag several digitized dictionaries. Please
provide me more information how to get access and download that list. Or, if
you know any other standard POS list, please also let
me know. Thank you for your help.
Ketty Gann
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Response 1
You can access our automatic POS tagger. Find out how to use it by emailing
'amalgam-tagger@scs.leeds.ac.uk' with the subject 'help'.
You can get help from our web pages:
http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/amalgam/
And follow the amalgam/software links.
Sean
Sean Wilcock
Tel: (0113) 233-6827 (Work)
personal web page http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/sean/
work web page http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/amalgam/
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Repsonse 2
Here is the list of part of speech tags which TreeBank people used.
The Web site for TreeBank is
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~treebank/
Lei Duan
Graduate student
Department of Computer Science
New Mexico State University
lduan@cs.nmsu.edu
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Part-of-speech tags used
Words are separated from their part-of-speech tag by a forward slash. The
part-of-speech tags used are given below. For detailed information on the
use of the tags, see /nldb/treebank/guide-to-tagging.tex. This document is
also available as Linc Lab Technical Report MS-CIS-90-47.
1. CC Coordinating conjunction
2. CD Cardinal number
3. DT Determiner
4. EX Existential `there'
5. FW Foreign word
6. IN Preposition or subordinating conjunction
7. JJ Adjective
8. JJR Adjective, comparative
9. JJS Adjective, superlative
10. LS List item marker
11. MD Modal
12. NN Noun, singular or mass
13. NNS Noun, plural
14. NP Proper noun, singular
15. NPS Proper noun, plural
16. PDT Predeterminer
17. POS Possessive ending
18. PP Personal pronoun
19. PP$ Possessive pronoun
20. RB Adverb
21. RBR Adverb, comparative
22. RBS Adverb, superlative
23. RP Particle29. VBG Verb, gerund or present participle
24. SYM Symbol
25. TO `to'
26. UH Interjection
27. VB Verb, base form
28. VBD Verb, past tense
29. VBG Verb, gerund or present participle
30. VBN Verb, past participle
31. VBP Verb, non-3rd person singular present
32. VBZ Verb, 3rd person singular present
33. WDT Wh-determiner
34. WP Wh-pronoun
35. WP$ Possessive wh-pronoun
36. WRB Wh-adverb
37. " Simple double quote
38. $ Dollar sign
39. # Pound sign
40. ` Left single quote
41. ' Right single quote
42. `` Left double quote
43. '' Right double quote
44. ( Left parenthesis (round, square, curly or angle bracket)
45. ) Right parenthesis (round, square, curly or angle bracket)
46. , Comma
47. . Sentence-final punctuation
48. : Mid-sentence punctuation
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Response 3
The XEROX POS tagger used to be distributed with a standardized POS list from
the Brown corpus. I have the Lisp version here (which is free). Someone
else downloaded it, so I'm not sure about the source. The file I'm looking
at is in the subdirectory ..../data/brown and is called lexicon.txt. It has
entries like:
zoologist nn zoologist
zoology nn zoology
zoomed vbd zoomed
zooming vbg zooming
zooms vbz zooms
zoooop uh zoooop
zorrillas fw zorrillas
zounds uh zounds
zu fw zu
zur fw zur
I hope this helps.
Job van Zuijlen
Senior NLP Scientist
SRA Corporation
zuijlenj@verdi.iisd.sra.com