German RFTagger part-of-speech tagset

A tagset is a list of part-of-speech tags (POS tags for short), i.e. labels used to indicate the part of speech and sometimes also other grammatical categories (case, tense etc.) of each token in a text corpus.

German corpora annotated by the RFTTagger tool use the German RFTTagger part-of-speech tagset. The RFTTagger tool is developed by Helmut Schmid and Florian Laws; for more information see Helmut Schmid and Florian Laws: Estimation of Conditional Probabilities with Decision Trees… [at COLING 2008, UK].

German tagsets

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German RFTagger tagset

German POS tags are quite complex:

können
VFIN.Mod.3.Pl.Pres.Ind

weitere
ADJA.Comp.Nom.Pl.Fem

Informationen
N.Reg.Nom.Pl.Fem

abgerufen
VPP.Full.Psp

To see tags, use the concordance and click View options .

Examples

This is how tags should be used in the CQL concordance search on the ADVANCED tab:

`[tag="ADJ.*"]`	finds all adjectives, e.g. gut, möglich (make sure you use straight quotation marks)
`[tag="N.Reg.Nom.Pl.Fem"]`	finds all nouns which are regular (common nouns), in the nominative, plural, feminine
`[lemma="Inf." & tag="N.Pl.*"]`	finds all nouns in plural starting Inf- (use .* instead of each category for which you do not want to specify concrete criteria)
`[lemma="Tür" & tag=".Pl."]`	finds the plural forms of the lemma Tür in all cases

Table of common tags

This table provides a list of basic part-of-speech tags that can be used to find the whole category of a concrete part of speech, e.g. nouns [tag="N.*"]

Part of speech	Tag
adjective	ADJ.*
adverb	ADV.*
article	ART.*
conjunction	CONJ.*
noun	N.*
numeral	CARD
preposition	APPR.*
pronoun	PRO\..*
verb	V.*

Table of advanced tags

The following table contains all possible values of part-of-speech tags in the German RFTagger tagset. It allows you to define a specific group of adjectives, nouns, and the like which you need to lookup. For instance, all third-person plural forms of verbs in the past tense can be found by using the CQL query: [tag="VFIN..*.3.Pl.*Past.*"]

Adjectives

Value	Description	Tag	Example
Category	attributive adjectives	ADJA	`[tag="ADJA.*"]`
Degree	positive	Pos
	comparative	Comp	`[tag="ADJA.Comp."]` finds all comparative adjectives*
	superlative	Sup
Case	nominative	Nom
	genitive	Gen
	dative	Dat
	accusative	Acc	`[tag="ADJA.Acc."]` finds all adjectives in the accusative
	unspecified	*
Number	singular	Sg
	plural	Plural	`[tag="ADJA.Dat.Pl."]` finds all plural forms of adjectives in the dative
	unspecified	*
Gender	feminine	Fem
	masculine	Masc
	neuter	Neut
	unspecified	*	`[tag="ADJA.\"]` finds all adjectives with unspecified gender
Category	adjective with predicative or adverbial usage	ADJD	`[tag="ADJD."]` finds all adjectives with predicative or adverbial usage*
Degree	comparative	Comp	`[tag="ADJD.Sup."]` finds all superlative adjectives with predicative or adverbial usage*
	positive	Sup
	superlative	Pos

Adverbs

Value	Description	Tag	Example
Category	adverbs	ADV	`[tag="ADV"]`finds all adverbs

Postpositions

Value	Description	Tag	Example
Category	postposition	APPO	`[tag="APPO.*"]`
Case	genitive	Gen
	dative	Dat	`[tag="APPO.Dat"]` finds all postpositions in the dative
	accusative	Acc

Prepositions

The CQL query [tag="APPR.*"]finds all types of prepositions (including incorporated article) in any case, number, and gender.

Value	Description	Tag	Example
Category	preposition	APPR	`[tag="APPR\.."]`finds all prepositions*
Case	genitive	Gen
	dative	Dat	`[tag="APPR.Dat"]` finds all prepositions in the dative
	accusative	Acc
Category	preposition with incorporated article	APPRART	`[tag="APPRART."]`finds all prepositions with incorporated article*
Case	nominative	Nom
	genitive	Gen
	dative	Dat
	accusative	Acc
Number	singular	Sg
	plural	Plural
	unspecified	*
Gender	feminine	Fem
	masculine	Masc
	neuter	Neut
	unspecified	*

Circumpositions (right part)

Value	Description	Tag	Example
Category	circumposition (right part)	APZR	`[tag="APZR"]`finds all circumposition (right part)

Articles

Value	Description	Tag	Example
Category	article	ART	`[tag="ART."]`finds all articles*
Type	definite	Def
	indefinite	Indef	`[tag="ART.Indef"]` finds all indefinite articles
Case	nominative	Nom
	genitive	Gen
	dative	Dat
	accusative	Acc
	unspecified	*
Number	singular	Sg
	plural	Plural
	unspecified	*
Gender	feminine	Fem
	masculine	Masc
	neuter	Neut
	unspecified	*

Cardinal numbers

Value	Description	Tag	Example
Category	cardinal number	CARD	`[tag="CARD"]`finds all cardinal numbers

Conjunctions

Value	Description	Tag	Example
Category	circumposition (right part)	CONJ	`[tag="CONJ."]`finds all conjunctions*
Type	comparative	Comp
	coordinating	Coord
	subordinating with finite clause	SubFin
	subordinating with infinitive	SubInf

Foreign words

Value	Description	Tag	Example
Category	foreign word	FM	`[tag="FM"]`finds all foreign words

Interjections

Value	Description	Tag	Example
Category	interjection	ITJ	`[tag="ITJ"]`finds all interjections

Nouns

Value	Description	Tag	Example
Category	noun	N	`[tag="N."]`finds all articles*
Type	proper noun	Name
	regular noun, common noun	Reg	`[tag="N.Reg."]` finds all regular/common nouns*
Case	nominative	Nom
	genitive	Gen
	dative	Dat
	accusative	Acc
	unspecified	*
Number	singular	Sg	`[tag="N.Name.Sg."]` finds all singular proper nouns
	plural	Plural
	unspecified	*
Gender	feminine	Fem
	masculine	Masc
	neuter	Neut	`[tag="N.Pl.Neut"]` finds all plural neuter nouns
	unspecified	*

Particles

Value	Description	Tag	Example
Category	particle	PART	`[tag="PART."]`finds all particles*
Type	answer	Ans
	degree	Deg
	negation	Neg	`[tag="PART.Neg"]`finds all negative particles
	“zu” particle	Zu
	separated verb particle	Verb

Pronouns

Value	Description	Tag	Example
Category	pronoun	PRO	`[tag="PRO.*"]`
Type	demonstrative	Dem
	indefinite	Indef
	interrogative	Inter
	personal	Pers	`[tag="PRO.Pers."]` find all personal pronouns*
	reflexive	Refl
	relative	Rel
	possessive	Poss
	unspecified	*
Usage	attributive	Attr
	substituting	Subst	`[tag="PRO.Rel.Subst."]` finds all relative pronouns that substitute*
Person	first	1
	second	2	`[tag="PRO.Dem.2."]` finds all 2nd-person forms of demonstrative pronouns
	third	3
	unspecified	*
	not applicable
Case	nominative	Nom
	genitive	Gen
	dative	Dat
	accusative	Acc	`[tag="PRO.Acc."]` finds all pronouns in the accusative
	unspecified	*
Number	singular	Sg
	plural	Plural	`[tag="Pro.Dat.Pl."]` finds all plural forms of pronouns in the dative
	unspecified	*
Gender	feminine	Fem
	masculine	Masc
	neuter	Neut
	unspecified	*	`[tag="PRO.\"]` finds all adjectives with unspecified gender

Pronomial adverbs

Value	Description	Tag	Example
Category	pronomial adverb	PROADV	`[tag="PROADV"]`finds all pronomial adverbs
Type	regular: dabei damit	Dem
	interrogative or relative: wie wozu	Inter	`[tag="PROADV"]`finds all interrogative/relative pronomial adverbs

Symbols

Value	Description	Tag	Example
Category	symbol	SYM	`[tag="SYM.]`finds all symbols*
Type	punctuation	PUN
	quotation	Quot
	parenthesis	Paren
	other	Other
Subtype	Left	Left
	Right	Right
	colon	Colon
	comma	Comma
	sentence punctuation	Sent
	hyphen	Hyph
	slash /	Slash
	asterisk *	Aster
	continuation periods …	Cont
	author	Auth
		XY

Truncated word forms

Value	Description	Tag	Example
Category	truncated word form	TRUNC	`[tag="TRUNC.*"]`
part of speech	adjective	Adj
	noun	Noun
	verb	Verb

Verbs

All verbs can be found by the following CQL query: [tag="V.*"]

Value	Description	Tag	Example
Category	finite verb	VFIN	`[tag="VFIN."]` finds all finite verbs*
Type	auxiliary	Aux
	modal	Mod
	full verb	Full
Person	first	1
	second	2
	third	3
Number	singular	Sg
	plural	Plural
Tense	past tense	Past
	present tense	Pres	`[tag="VFIN.Pres."]` finds all finite verbs in the present tense
Mood	indicative	Ind
	subjunctive	Subj
Category	imperative verb	VIMP	`[tag="VIMP."]` finds all imperative verbs*
Type	auxiliary	Aux
	modal	Mod
	full verb	Full
Person	first	1
	second	2
	third	3
Number	singular	Sg
	plural	Plural
Category	infinitival verb	VINF	`[tag="VINF."]` finds all participle verbs*
Type	auxiliary	Aux
	modal	Mod
	full verb	Full
Subtype	with “zu” infix	zu
	no infix		`[tag="VINF[^z]"]` finds all participle verbs with no infix*
Category	participle verb	VPP	`[tag="VPP."]` finds all participle verbs*
Type	auxiliary	Aux
	modal	Mod
	full verb	Full
Subtype	present participle	Prp
	past participle	Psp	`[tag="VPP.Psp."]` finds all participle verbs in the past participle form*

Source: http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/~schmid/tools/RFTagger/

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