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tagger

tagger

1 7.0
A person or program that labels each word with its part of speech
  • noun
  • /ˈtæɡər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : etiquetador
  • Different taggers may induce a differential rate of short-term tagging mortality.

Examples

  • TAGGERS: And finally, reader Rich Partain shares his frustration with taggers.

    Blog text (27)

  • I must answer the questions the tagger listed for me (since I got tagged more than once, this isn't going to be a nice pointy eleven).

    Blog text (14)

  • But after a while, I guess the taggers just got tired of doing it over.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Daryl, he was a tagger.

    Light It Up (1999)

  • Although the short-term loss rate is assumed to be constant among taggers, occasionally differences are great enough to require special treatment.

    Academic text (1991)

  • The software tagger automatically assigns categories to each word in the document.

  • As a tagger, her job was to label the nouns and verbs in the text for analysis.

  • Using a tagger can greatly improve the efficiency of processing large amounts of text.

Synonyms

tagging program
vstagger
  • Specialized
5.3

A computer program that marks words with parts of speech like noun or verb

includes both people and programs doing the same labeling task
part-of-speech tagger
vstagger
  • Specialized
4.6

A computer program that labels each word as a noun, verb, or adjective

covers grammatical categories more broadly beyond only part of speech
POS tagger
vstagger
  • Specialized
6.4

A computer program that labels words in text with parts of speech like noun or verb

can be done by people as well as programs and covers other grammatical categories
annotator
vstagger
6.2

A person or tool that adds notes and labels to text and data to explain it

focuses specifically on assigning grammatical categories not general notes or comments

Compounds

part-of-speech tagger
  • Specialized
4.6

A computer program that labels each word as a noun, verb, or adjective

POS tagger
  • Specialized
6.4

A computer program that labels words in text with parts of speech like noun or verb

sense tagger
  • Specialized
6.9

A computer program that labels words in text with their meaning

Surface Forms

tagger singular
taggers plural

Morphology

tagger = tag (transparent) = tag + er

Standard agent-noun formation from the verb 'tag'; the meaning 'one who tags' is directly derived and applies to both humans and programs.

Etymology

Tagger comes from the simple word tag meaning 'label' or 'mark' and the ending -er meaning 'one who does something'. So a tagger is literally 'one who adds tags', which fits a person or program that gives grammatical labels to words.