Skip to main content

Dictionary of Terms for Language Resources and Language Technology Infrastructures

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

... > language resources and technology infrastructure concept > operation > annotation > text annotation > morphosyntactic tagging > part-of-speech tagging

Preferred term

part-of-speech tagging  

Definition

  • the task/process of marking words with the part of speech (word category, e.g. noun, verb etc.) to which they belong

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • grammatical annotation
  • grammatical tagging
  • PoS annotation
  • PoS tagging

Note

  • The technologies for or the process of determining the correct part-of-speech tag for a word given its local context. The task comprises disambiguation of multiple part-of-speech tags and guessing of the correct part-of-speech tag for unknown words. Part-of-speech tagging is frequently used as a preprocessing step for shallow and deep parsers.

In other languages

URI

http://w3id.org/clarin_el_dictionary/posTagging

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD