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Adso -- Part of Speech and Ontological Tags


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This is a list of the general semantic and ontological tags supported by the Adso database and software. We'll try to keep this list as up-to-date as possible. If you edit the database to include this tag information, please remember to provide it in the uppercase as listed below:

Two notes: (1) Suggestions for new parts of speech / ontological tags are welcome. (2) the software works by pattern matching, so all words marked CHINESEPERSON will be treated as a subset of PERSON. This means you should avoid creating new tags which contain other tags as substrings unless the implied logical relationship holds.

ADDRESS

Assignations like "Doctor", "Vice President", and "Chairman". Frequently followed by personal names

ADJT

English Adjectives and Chinese Xingrongci

ADVB

Adverbs -- words like "happily", "quickly", etc.

AUXV

Auxiliary Verbs -- also known as "helper verbs", auxiliary verbs are words like "can", "should", "must". Note the uniform conjugation of the following verb

CAD

Chinese Adverbs of Degree like "hen3" or "tai4". These words precede Xingrongci.

CHENGYU

Chengyu or Chinese idioms

CHINESEPERSON

Full Chinese personal name like "Jackie Chan", "Jiang Zemin", etc.

CITY

Cities and towns

COUNTRY

Countries

DATE

Dates

DOUBLENAME

Chinese family names that consist of two rather than once character (eg. 第五).

EARTHLY

The twelve earthly branches associated with Chinese astrology.

FEMALE

Indicates a feminine word. Almost always used in combination with personal names, as in the tag FEMALEPERSON.

HEAVENLY

The ten heavenly stems associated with Chinese astrology.

MALE

Indicates a masculine word. Almost always used in combination with personal names, as in the tag MALEPERSON.

MEASUREMENT

Measurement words like "kilowatt", "cubic inch", etc.

MW

Measure words like 个, 张, etc.

NAME

Chinese family name, like 张, 王, etc.

NOUN

Nouns

OCPP

Obscure Chinese Political Phrases like "The Three Represents", "The Three Rurals", "The Four Respects", etc.

ORG

Organizational names like "Ford", "Coca Cola", "Herald Tribune"

ONOMAT

Onomatopoeia -- words that express a sound, such as 阿, or 嗯, or 嗨.

OTHR

Other -- miscellaneous and hard to classify

PHONETIC

Phonetic words or characters - those composed of characters which have been chosen merely to represent a particular sound. There are typically used with words imported from English or other lanugages, and most commonly used in proper names

PLACE

Place names and geographic places

PERSON

Personal names like "Barbara" or "John"

PROPERNOUN

Proper Nouns - any proper nouns that do not fit in other classes.

QUESTION

Question words like "what", "how", "why", etc.

SLANG

Slang -- note that slang can be marked with additional tags to suggest the origin of the phrase. The structure for these tags is to provide the pinyin of the source and add "HUA" to the end, such as DONGBEIHUA or SHANGHAIHUA or HEIHUA

SWAN

Starting with a number -- tag for words or pharses that start with a number. This helps the grammar engine.

TIME

Times

XING

Xingrongci are a special subset of Adjectives which can be preceeded by Chinese Adverbs of Degree.

VERB

Verbs

----- Regional Slang -----

BEIJINGHUA

Beijing dialect

DONGBEIHUA

Northeastern dialect

HEIHUA

A rustic kind of bandit slang formerly common in Northern China

SHANGHAIHUA

Shanghai dialect

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