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Where can I find the expansions for the short codes used by POS taggers?


All of the Parts of Speech (POS) Taggers give the tags in the form of shortcodes like (NNS,VBZ etc).

This/DT page/NN is/VBZ about/IN the/DT Brill-tagger/NNP

Like the above example which is from one of the online POS Taggers.

Where can I find the meaning of each shortcodes?


Solution

  • English taggers often use the Penn Treebank Tagset. Here you can find a quick overview and the official detailed annotation guidelines.