A set of 12 universal POS tags described in
A Universal Part-of-Speech Tagset by Slav Petrov, Dipanjan Das and Ryan McDonald (2012) In Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
(code and mappings available: here.
Tag | Meaning | English Examples |
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ADJ | adjective | new, good, high, special, big, local |
ADP | adposition | on, of, at, with, by, into, under |
ADV | adverb | really, already, still, early, now |
CONJ | conjunction | and, or, but, if, while, although |
DET | determiner, article | the, a, some, most, every, no, which |
NOUN | noun | year, home, costs, time, Africa |
NUM | numeral | twenty-four, fourth, 1991, 14:24 |
PRT | particle | at, on, out, over per, that, up, with |
PRON | pronoun | he, their, her, its, my, I, us |
VERB | verb | is, say, told, given, playing, would |
. | punctuation marks | . , ; ! |
X | other | ersatz, esprit, dunno, gr8, univeristy |
Table adapted from the NLTK book (Chapter 5).