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.
Hebrew YAP part-of-speech tagset
Hebrew corpora annotated using Yet Another (natural language) Parser (abbreviated as YAP) use the part-of-speech tagset described below. YAP is part of the ONLP Lab tool kit.
The following table lists the basic POS tags used in Hebrew corpora annotated with YAP.
An Example of a tag in the CQL concordance search box: [tag="NN"] finds all nouns (note: please make sure that you use straight double quotation marks).
Tags joined by “+” represent multiple morphemes occurring within a single orthographic word. Each component retains the meaning listed in the table below, and the components are read from left to right. For example: [tag="AT+S_PRN"]finds tokens consisting of an accusative marker and a pronominal suffix; [tag="ADVERB+BN+POS+S_PRN"] finds tokens consisting of an adverbial prefix, a participle, a possessive preposition and a pronominal suffix.
| POS Tag | Description | Note/Example |
| ADVERB | Adverbial prefix כ before numerals | Meaning “about” or “approximately”. |
| AT | Accusative marker את | Appears as a separate word in written Hebrew. |
| BN | Participle (בינוני) | |
| BNT | Participle in the construct state | בינוני בסמיכות |
| CC | Coordinating conjunction (standalone) | |
| CD | Numeral | |
| CDT | Numeral in the construct state | |
| CONJ | Attached coordinating conjunction | Typically the Hebrew letter ו (vav), meaning “and”. |
| COP | Copula | Includes forms of היה “to be”, including the infinitive להיות. |
| DEF | Definiteness marker ה | Attached to nouns, adjectives, and numerals. |
| DT | Pronominal or inflected determiner/quantifier | E.g. כולו “all of it”, כולם “all of them”, אותו “the same”, רובנו “most of us”. |
| DTT | Quantifying determiner | E.g. כל “all/every”, הרבה “many/much”, כמה “some/how many”, עוד “more/additional”. |
| EX | Existential marker | יש “there is/are” or אין “there is/are not”. |
| IN | Standalone preposition | |
| INTJ | Interjection | |
| JJ | Adjective | |
| JJT | Adjective in the construct state | |
| MD | Modal predicate | |
| NCD | Formatted numeric expression | E.g. dates, times, telephone numbers, and similar numeric strings. |
| NEG | Negation particle | Especially לאו “not” and בל “do not / lest”. |
| NN | Noun | Includes nouns with pronominal suffixes, e.g. שמו “his name” or ביתו “his house”. |
| NNP | Proper noun | |
| NNPT | Acronym or abbreviation functioning as a proper noun | |
| NNT | Noun in the construct state | |
| P | Prefix written as a separate word | E.g. בלתי “un-/non-”, אי “non-/not”, פוסט “post-”, אנטי “anti-”. |
| POS | Possessive preposition | של (“of”) |
| PREPOSITION | Inseparable preposition attached as a prefix | |
| PRP | Personal pronoun | |
| QW | Question / WH word | |
| RB | Adverb | |
| REL | Relativizer | |
| S_PRN | Pronominal suffix | A personal pronoun expressed as a suffix. It may appear as S_PRN or as the final component of compound tags, e.g. IN+S_PRN, AT+S_PRN and POS+S_PRN. |
| TEMP | Temporal subordinating conjunction | Introduces a time clause. |
| TTL | Personal title or honorific expression | Used before or after a person’s name, e.g. ד״ר “Dr.”, פרופ׳ “Prof.”, הרב “Rabbi”, or ז״ל “of blessed memory”. |
| VB | Verb | Includes finite and infinitive verb forms. |
| yy.* | Various punctuation symbols | |
| yyCLN | Colon | : |
| yyCM | Comma | , |
| yyDASH | Hyphen or dash | – or – |
| yyDOT | Full stop (period) | . |
| yyELPS | Ellipsis | … |
| yyEXCL | Exclamation mark | ! |
| yyLRB | Left parenthesis | ( |
| yyQM | Question mark | ? |
| yyQUOT | Quotation mark | “ ” or straight double quotation mark (“) |
| yyRRB | Right parenthesis | ) |
| yySCLN | Semicolon | ; |
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