part-of-speech tagger
- noun
- /ˈpɑrt əv spɪʃ tægər/
- Specialized
- The part-of-speech tagger accurately identified all the nouns and verbs in the sentence.
Examples
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Researchers use a part-of-speech tagger to analyze grammatical patterns in large text corpora.
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The part-of-speech tagger is essential for natural language processing.
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After training the part-of-speech tagger on more data, its performance improved significantly.
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Have you used a part-of-speech tagger before?
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Researchers use a part-of-speech tagger to analyze grammatical patterns in large text corpora.
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The part-of-speech tagger accurately identified all the nouns and verbs in the sentence.
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After training the part-of-speech tagger on more data, its performance improved significantly.
Synonyms
A person or program that labels each word with its part of speech
A computer program that labels words in text with parts of speech like noun or verb
A computer program that marks words with parts of speech like noun or verb
Surface Forms
Morphology
part-of-speech + tagger
The compound is fully compositional: 'part-of-speech' denotes a grammatical category and 'tagger' denotes an agent or tool that assigns tags, so a learner who knows both constituents can infer it is a tool that labels words with their parts of speech. This follows a regular noun+noun compound pattern common cross-linguistically, so the meaning is directly derivable for learners familiar with the component words.
Etymology
The term part-of-speech tagger comes from the simple image of someone putting small labels on each word: the part-of-speech, like 'noun' or 'verb', and the tagger who 'tags' them. So, the name means a computer program that labels each word's role in a sentence.