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1.2.6 Part of Speech Tagging

Some sub-corpora have been annotated with Part Of Speech annotations. This concerns WUS_DIALOG_GSW, WUS_FRA, WUS_FRA_DEMOG, WUS_ITA, WUS_ITA_DEMOG.

French

The whole French corpus has been annotated with MElt (Modified French TreeBank) using the tag set CC Tagset. Available annotations are "mftb_pos" (for part of speech) and "mftb_lem" (for the lemma). The following tags are used:

• ADJ adjective
• ADJWH interrogative adjective
• ADV adverb
• ADVWH interrogative adverb
• CC coordination conjunction
• CLO object clitic pronoun
• CLR reflexive clitic pronoun
• CLS subject clitic pronoun
• CS subordination conjunction
• DET determiner
• DETWH interrogative determiner
• ET foreign word
• I interjection
• NC common noun
• NPP proper noun
• P preposition
• P+D preposition+determiner amalgam
• P+PRO prepositon+pronoun amalgam
• PONCT punctuation mark
• PREF prefix
• PRO full pronoun
• PROREL relative pronoun
• PROWH interrogative pronoun
• V indicative or conditional verb form
• VIMP imperative verb form
• VINF infinitive verb form
• VPP past participle
• VPR present participle
• VS subjunctive verb form

Additionally, the following combined annotations can occur, e.g. “P+D” for a preposition with a determiner like aux. The following list is ordered by the number of occurrences within the corpus:

• CLS+V
• CLS+CLO
• CS+CS
• CLS+CLO+V
• ADV+CLR+V+ADV
• DET+NC
• CLS+CLR
• CLS+CLR+V
• PRO+V
• P+NC
• CLR+V
• CLO+V
• DET+ADJ
• V+CLS
• CS+CLS
• P+PRO
• ADV+V
• DET+DET
• DET+PRO
• CLO+CLO
• P+VINF
• CLS+CLO+P
• P+ADJ
• CLS+VS
• CLS+CLO+CLO
• CLR+VINF
• CLS+NC
• CLS+DET
• PROWH+V+CLS+CS
• ADV+ADV+ADV
• NPP+V
• CLS+CLR+CLO
• DET+VPP
• ADV+ADV+CS
• ET+CLO+V
• ADV+VPP
• ADV+VINF
• CLS+P
• P+VPP
• CLS+VPP
• CLR+NC
• ET+CLO

Swiss German dialect

A small part of the Swiss German dialectal data has been manually normalized and annotated for Part of Speech. The according corpus is called WUS_DIALOG_GSW. Three annotations have been added to each token:

• gloss: The manual normalization
• tt_pos: Part of Speech annotation with TreeTagger based on the manually normalized tokens, i.e. "gloss".
• tt_lem: The lemma as assigned by TreeTagger

The tagset uses the following tags:

• ADJA attributive adjective (including participles used adjectivally) das große Haus die versunkene Glocke
• ADJD predicate adjective; adjective used adverbially der Vogel ist blau er fährt schnell
• ADV adverb (never used as attributive adjective) sie kommt bald
• APPR preposition left hand part of double preposition auf dem Tisch an der Straße entlang
• APPRART preposition with fused article am Tag
• APPO postposition meiner Meinung nach
• APZR right hand part of double preposition an der Straße entlang
• ART article (definite or indefinite) die Tante; eine Tante
• CARD cardinal number (words or figures); also declined zwei; 526; dreier
• FM foreign words (actual part of speech in original language may be appended, e.g. FMADV/ FM-NN) semper fidem
• ITJ interjection Ach!
• KON co-ordinating conjunction oder ich bezahle nicht
• KOKOM comparative conjunction or particle er arbeitet als Straßenfeger, so gut wie du
• KOUI preposition used to introduce infinitive clause um den König zu töten
• KOUS subordinating conjunction weil er sie gesehen hat
• NA adjective used as noun der Gesandte
• NE names and other proper nouns Moskau
• NN noun (but not adjectives used as nouns) der Abend
• PAV [PROAV] pronominal adverb sie spielt damit
• PAVREL pronominal adverb used as relative die Puppe, damit sie spielt
• PDAT demonstrative determiner dieser Mann war schlecht
• PDS demonstrative pronoun dieser war schlecht
• PIAT indefinite determiner (whether occurring on its own or in conjunction with another determiner) einige Wochen, viele solche Bemerkungen
• PIS indefinite pronoun sie hat viele gesehen
• PPER personal pronoun sie liebt mich
• PRF reflexive pronoun ich wasche mich, sie wäscht sich
• PPOSS possessive pronoun das ist meins
• PPOSAT possessive determiner mein Buch, das ist der meine/meinige
• PRELAT relative depending on a noun der Mann, dessen Lied ich singe […], welchen Begriff ich nicht verstehe
• PRELS relative pronoun (i.e. forms of der or welcher) der Herr, der gerade kommt; der Herr, welcher nun kommt
• PTKA particle with adjective or adverb am besten, zu schnell, aufs herzlichste
• PTKANT answer particle ja, nein
• PTKNEG negative particle nicht
• PTKREL indeclinable relative particle so
• PTKVZ separable prefix sie kommt an
• PTKZU infinitive particle zu
• PWS interrogative pronoun wer kommt?
• PWAT interrogative determiner welche Farbe?
• PWAV interrogative adverb wann kommst du?
• PWAVREL interrogative adverb used as relative der Zaun, worüber sie springt
• PWREL interrogative pronoun used as relative etwas, was er sieht
• TRUNC truncated form of compound Vor- und Nachteile
• VAFIN finite auxiliary verb sie ist gekommen
• VAIMP imperative of auxiliary sei still!
• VAINF infinitive of auxiliary er wird es gesehen haben
• VAPP past participle of auxiliary sie ist es gewesen
• VMFIN finite modal verb sie will kommen
• VMINF infinitive of modal er hat es sehen müssen
• VMPP past participle of auxiliary sie hat es gekonnt
• VVFIN finite full verb sie ist gekommen
• VVIMP imperative of full verb bleibt da!
• VVINF infinitive of full verb er wird es sehen
• VVIZU infinitive with incorporated zu sie versprach aufzuhören
• VVPP past participle of full verb sie ist gekommen

As in the French corpus, there are also combined tags such as VAFIN+PPER when a personal pronoun is agglutinated to a verb (hätti for 'hätte ich').

Italian

The Italian corpus is annotated with the TreeTagger, too, but based on the original tokens, i.e. not manually normalized. In this sub-corpus, however, only some parts were manually normalized resulting in the following three annotations:

• gloss: The manual normalization (often _UNGLOSSED_)
• tt_pos: Part of Speech annotation with TreeTagger
• tt_lem: The lemma as assigned by TreeTagger

The following PoS tagset was used:

• ABR abbreviation
• ADJ adjective
• ADV adverb
• CON conjunction
• DET:def definite article
• DET:indef indefinite article
• FW foreign word
• INT interjection
• LS list symbol
• NOM noun
• NPR name
• NUM numeral
• PON punctuation
• PRE preposition
• PRE:det preposition+article
• PRO pronoun
• PRO:demo demonstrative pronoun
• PRO:indef indefinite pronoun
• PRO:inter interrogative pronoun
• PRO:pers personal pronoun
• PRO:poss possessive pronoun
• PRO:refl reflexive pronoun
• PRO:rela relative pronoun
• SENT sentence marker
• SYM symbol
• VER:cimp verb conjunctive imperfect
• VER:cond verb conditional
• VER:cpre verb conjunctive present
• VER:futu verb future tense
• VER:geru verb gerund
• VER:impe verb imperative
• VER:impf verb imperfect
• VER:infi verb infinitive
• VER:pper verb participle perfect
• VER:ppre verb participle present
• VER:pres verb present
• VER:refl:infi verb reflexive infinitive
• VER:remo verb simple past