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 given in the table below and the components should be read from left to right. For example: [tag="ADVERB+BN+POS+S_PRN"] finds tokens consisting of an adverbial prefix, a participle, a possessive marker 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 | |
| COP_TOINFINITIVE | Infinitive form of היה used as a copula | |
| DEF | Definiteness marker ה | Attached to nouns, adjectives, and numerals. |
| DT | Determiner כל with a pronominal suffix | This is the use documented for the treebank. |
| DTT | Determiner | |
| DUMMY_AT | Accusative marker את with a pronominal suffix | |
| 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 | |
| NN_S_PP | Noun with a pronominal suffix | |
| NNP | Proper noun | |
| NNPT | Proper-name acronym or abbreviation | |
| NNT | Noun in the construct state | |
| P | Prefix written as a separate token | E.g. אי, בלתי, אנטי. |
| POS | Possessive or accusative form with a pronominal suffix | של or את with a pronominal suffix. |
| PREPOSITION | Inseparable preposition attached as a prefix | |
| PRP | Personal pronoun | |
| QW | Question / WH word | |
| RB | Adverb | |
| REL | Relativizer | |
| S_PRN | Pronominal suffix | Personal pronoun attached to a preposition. |
| 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 | |
| VB_TOINFINITIVE | Infinitive verb | |
| 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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