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tagging program

tagging program

5.3
A computer program that marks words with parts of speech like noun or verb
  • noun
  • /ˈtæɡɪŋ ˈprɒɡræm/
  • Specialized
translation icon : programa de etiquetado
  • The linguist developed a new tagging program that accurately labeled parts of speech in the text.

Examples

  • With the help of the tagging program, we were able to categorize the grammatical structures in the written samples.

  • Our research team utilized a tagging program to identify syntactic categories in multiple documents.

  • During the earlier years of the tagging program.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Since there have been extensive field tagging programs with two or more taggers working side by side, this additional potential source of error can easily be evaluated.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Data from the juvenile tagging programs permitted the determination of general recruitment patterns from estuarine nursery areas to the fishery.

    Academic text (1991)
  • This report provides an overview of the history of the tagging program, methodologies for both release and recovery activities, a summary of release areas and the number of fish tagged within each area, and a review of assumptions necessary for the analysis of this type of mark-recovery data.

    Academic text (1991)
  • The menhaden tagging programs and their resultant data sets have made major contributions to our knowledge of the biology and population dynamics of both the Atlantic and Gulf menhaden.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Initially, the goals of the tagging program focused on determining migratory habits, stock structure, and survival rates for the Atlantic menhaden population (Dryfoos et al., 1973).

    Academic text (1991)
  • This paper provides an overview of the NMFS menhaden tagging program, summarizes when, where, and how many fish were released, and introduces analytical adjustments required for analysis of the internal, ferromagnetic mark-recovery data.

    Academic text (1991)

Synonyms

tagger
vstagging program
  • Specialized
1 7.0

A person or program that labels each word with its part of speech

is used only by software rather than people
POS tagger
vstagging program
  • Specialized
6.4

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

also assigns syntactic categories beyond just part of speech
part-of-speech tagger
vstagging program
  • Specialized
4.6

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

also marks other grammatical categories like phrase types

Surface Forms

Morphology

tag + program

The noun phrase is directly compositional: 'tagging' = the act of applying tags/labels and 'program' = software, so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer 'a program that tags' (i.e., software for assigning labels). This is a common, literal compound pattern found across languages, making the overall meaning transparent to learners.

Etymology

Tagging program comes from the idea of a tag — a small label you put on something. Imagine a teacher sticking name tags on each word to show 'parts of speech', so the program automatically 'labels' nouns, verbs and other grammar parts.