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 by the Yet Another (natural language) Parser (abbreviated as YAP) tool are tagged with this Hebrew part-of-speech scheme. YAP is part of the ONLP lab tool kit.
The following table shows Hebrew the part-of-speech tagset scheme used
An Example of a tag in the CQL concordance search box: [tag="NNP"] finds all proper nouns (note: please make sure that you use straight double quotation marks)
| POS Tag | Description | Example |
| ADVERB | The word כ before numerals | |
| AT | Accusative marker את which appears as a separate word in written Hebrew | |
| BN | BN – participle (בינוני) | |
| BNN | Participle (בינוני) in construct state form | |
| CC | Conjunction | |
| CD | Numeral | |
| CDT | Numeral in the construct state | |
| CONJ | Coordinating conjunction ו | |
| COP | Copula | |
| COP_TOINFINITIVE | The infinitive form of the verb היה used as a copula | |
| DEF | A special tag assigned to the definiteness marker ה, which appears with nouns, adjectives and numerals | |
| DT | Used in the treebank only for the determiner כל with a pronominal suffix | |
| DTT | Determiner | |
| DUMMY_AT | Accusative marker אתwhen used with a pronominal suffix | |
| EX | existential marker יש or אין | |
| IN | Preposition | |
| INTJ | Interjection | |
| JJ | Adjective | |
| JJT | Adjective in the construct state | |
| MD | Modal predicates | |
| NN | Noun | |
| NN_S_PP | Noun with a pronominal suffix | |
| NNP | Proper noun | |
| NNT | Construct state noun | |
| P | Prefix written as a separate word (אי, בלתי,אנטי etc.) | |
| POS | Possessive preposition של and accusative marker את with a pronominal suffix | |
| PREPOSITION | Inseparable preposition | |
| PRP | Personal pronoun | |
| QW | Question word | |
| S_PRN | Personal pronoun attached to a preposition as a pronominal suffix | |
| TEMP | Subordinating conjunction introducing time clauses | |
| VB | Verb | |
| VB_TOINFINITIVE | A verb in its infinitive form | |
| yy.* | various symbols | |
| yyCLN | Colon | : |
| yyCM | Comma | , |
| yyDASH | Hyphen or dash | – or – |
| yyDOT | Period | . |
| yyELPS | Ellipsis (…) | … |
| yyEXCL | Exclamation point | ! |
| yyLRB | Left parenthesis | ( |
| yyQM | Question mark | ? |
| yyQUOT | Quotation mark | „ |
| yyRRB | Right parenthesis | ) |
| yySCLN | Semicolon | ; |
Reference
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.22.8581&rep=rep1&type=pdf (Hebrew tagset can be found on page 7 and following)
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