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 RFTTagger part-of-speech tagset is available in German corpora that are annotated with the tool RFTagger developed by Helmut Schmid and Florian Laws. See Helmut Schmid and Florian Laws: Estimation of Conditional Probabilities with Decision Trees and an Application to Fine-Grained POS Tagging, COLING 2008, Manchester, Great Britain.
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 visibility.
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 nominative, plural, femenine |
| [lemma=”Inf.*” & tag=”N.*Pl.*”] | finds all nouns in lural 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 |
For practicality, each grammatical category also has its own attribute which are easier to remember than the tags.
| [tag=”N.*” & Number =”Pl”] | finds all nouns in plural |
| [lemma=”Tür” & Number=”Pl”] | finds the plural forms of the lemma Tür |
| [lemma=”abgerufen” & Tense=”Past”] | finds the verb abrufen in the past tense |
| Tag | Description |
| ADJA.* | attributive adjective |
| Degree | Comp Pos Sup |
| Case | Nom Gen Dat Acc * (unspecified) |
| Number | Sg Pl * |
| Gender | Fem Masc Neut * |
| ADJD.* | adjective with predicative or adverbial usage |
| Degree | Comp Pos Sup |
| ADV.* | adverb |
| APPO.* | postposition |
| Case | Nom Gen Dat Acc * |
| APPR.* | preposition |
| Case | Nom Gen Dat Acc * |
| APPRART.* |
preposition with incorporated article |
| Case | Nom Gen Dat Acc * |
| Number | Sg Pl * |
| Gender | Fem Masc Neut * |
| APZR | circumposition (right part) |
| ART.* | article |
| Type | Def (definite) Indef (indefinite) |
| Case | Nom Gen Dat Acc * |
| Number | Sg Pl * |
| Gender | Fem Masc Neut * |
| CARD | cardinal number |
| CONJ.* | conjunction |
| Type | Comp (comparative) Coord (coordinating) SubFin (subordinating with finite clause) SubInf (subordinating with infinitive) |
| FM | foreign word |
| ITJ | interjection |
| N.* | noun |
| Type | Name (proper noun) Reg (regular noun, common noun) |
| Case | Nom Gen Dat Acc * |
| Number | Sg Pl * |
| Gender | Fem Masc Neut * |
| PART.* | particle |
| Type | Ans (answer) Deg (degree) Neg (negation) Zu (“zu” particle) Verb (separated verb particle) |
| PRO.* | pronoun |
| Type | Dem (demonstrative) Indef (indefinite) Inter (interrogative) Pers (personal) Refl (reflexive) Rel (relative) Poss (possessive) |
| Usage | Attr (attributive) Subst (substituting) |
| Person | 1 2 3 * – (not applicable) |
| Case | Nom Gen Dat Acc * |
| Number | Sg Pl * |
| Gender | Fem Masc Neut * |
| PROADV.* | pronomial adverb |
| Type | Dem (regular: dabei damit) Inter (interrogative or relative: wie wozu) |
| SYM.* | symbol |
| Type | Pun (punctuation) Quot (quotation) Paren (parenthesis) Other |
| Subtype | Left Right Colon Comma Sent (sentential punctuation) Hyph (hyphen) Slash Aster (asterisk) Cont (continuation periods) Auth (author) XY |
| TRUNC.* | truncated word form |
| POS | Adj Noun Verb – |
| VFIN.* | finite verb |
| Type | Aux (auxiliary) Mod (modal) Full (full verb) |
| Person | 1 2 3 |
| Number | Pl Sg |
| Tense | Past Pres |
| Mood | Ind (indicative) Subj (subjunctive) |
| VIMP.* | imperative verb |
| Type | Aux (auxiliary) Mod (modal) Full (full verb) |
| Person | 1 2 3 |
| Number | Pl Sg |
| VINF.* | infinitival verb |
| Type | Aux (auxiliary) Mod (modal) Full (full verb) |
| Subtype | zu (with “zu” infix) – (no infix) |
| VPP.* | participle verb |
| Type | Aux (auxiliary) Mod (modal) Full (full verb) |
| Subtype | Prp (present participle) Psp (past participle) |
Source: http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/~schmid/tools/RFTagger/
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