Parts of Speech Tagset: Kannada: S.N TAG Description Example (English)

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Parts of Speech Tagset: Kannada

The Kannada tagset consists of 30 tags, where inflections were not considered.
The compound tagsare used only for nouns (NNC) and proper nouns (NNPC). There
are 5 tags for nouns, 1 tag for pronoun, 8 tags for verbs, 3 for punctuations, two for
number, and 1 for each adjective, adverb, conjunction, echo, reduplication, intensifier,
postposition, emphasize, determiners, complimentizer and question word. The tags in
the Kannada tagset are described in the Table with example each.

Table : POS Tagset for Kannada

S.N TAG DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE [ ENGLISH ]

1 <NN> NOUN ಹನಡನಗ (huDuga) [ boy ]

2 <NNC> COMPOUND NOUN ಎತ್ತತನಫೆಂಡಿ (ettina banDi)

3 <NNP> PROPER NOUN ಕರ್ ಾಟಕ ( Karnataka)

4 <NNPC> COMPOUND ಅಫನ್ಲ್್ಱ ೆಂ (Abdul kalam)


PROPER NOUN

5 <CRD> CARDINALS ಒೆಂದನ (ondu) [ one ]

6 <ORD> ORDINALS ಒೆಂದನೆ (ondane ) [ first ]

7 <PRP> PRONOUN ಅವನನ (avanu) [ he ]

8 <ADJ> ADJECTIVE ಸನೆಂದಯವ ದ (sundaravAda)


[ beautiful ]
9 <ADV> ADVERB ಳೋಗದಲ್ಲಿ (vEgadalli)[ speedily ]

10 <VNAJ> VERB NONFINITE ಫೆಂದಹನಡನಗ (bandahuDuga)

ADJECTIVE [ the boy who came ]


11 <VNAV> VERB NONFINITE ಫೆಂದನಹ ೋದನನ(banduhOdanu)

ADVERB [ came and went back ]


12 <VBG> VERBAL GERUND ಫಯನವ (baruva )[ coming ]

13 <VBC> VERB ಫಯನಳೋನನ(baruvEnu)[might come ]


CONTINGENT

14 <VF> VERB FINITE ಫರದೆನನ (baredenu)[ wrote ]

15 <VAX> AUXILIARY VERB ನೆ ೋಡನತ್ತತದೆ್ೋನೆ (nODuttiddEne)


[ was + ing ]
16 <VINT> VERB INFINITE ನೆ ೋಡಲ್ನ (nODalu)[ to see ]

17 <CNJ> CONJUNCTION ಭತನತ (mattu)[ and ]

18 <CVB> CONDITIONAL ನೆ ೋಡಿದರ (nODidare)[ if seen ]


VERB
19 <QW> QUESTION WORDS ಏಕೆ (Eke)[ why ]

20 <COM> COMPLIMENTIZER ಎೆಂಫ (enba)[ s , es ]

21 <NNQ> QUANTITY NOUN ಸವಲ್ಪ (swalpa)[ little ]

22 <PPO> POST POSITIONS ತನಕ (tanaka)[ till ]

23 <DET> DETERMINERS ಆ (A)

24 <INT> INTENSIFIER ತನೆಂಬ (tunbA)[ very ]

25 <ECH> ECHO WORDS ಅಪ್ಪಪತಪ್ಪಪ(appi tappi)[by mistake ]

26 <EMP> EMPHASIS ಮ ತರ (matra)[ only ]

27 <COMM> COMMA ,

28 <DOT> DOT .

29 <QM> QUESTION MARK ?

30 <RDW> REDUPLICATION ಟ ಟ (paTa paTa )


WORDS [ continuously ]

5.2.1 Description of Tags in the POS Tag set

NN (Noun)

The tag NN is used for common nouns (general nouns) without differentiating
them based on the grammatical information.

NNC (Compound Noun)


Nouns that are compound are tagged using the tag NNC.

NNP (Proper Nouns)

The tag NNP tags the proper nouns.

NNPC (Compound Proper Nouns)

Compound proper nouns are tagged using the tag NNPC.

ORD (Ordinal)

Expressions denoting ordinals will be tagged as ORD.

CRD (Cardinal)

Cardinal tag CRD tag tags the cardinals (numbers) in the language.

PRP (Pronoun)

All pronouns are tagged using the tag PRP.

ADJ (Adjective)

All adjectives in the language will be tagged as ADJ.

ADV (Adverb)

ADV tag tags the adverbs in the language. This tag is used only for manner

adverbs. VNAJ (Verb Non-finite Adjective)

VNAJ tag tags the Verb Non-finite Adjective in the language.

VNAV (Verb Non-finite Adverb)

VNAV tag tags the Verb Non-finite Adverb in the language.

VBG (Verbal Gerund)

All Verbal Gerund in the language will be tagged as VBG.

VF (Verb Finite)
VF tag is used to tag the finite verbs in the language.

VAX (Auxiliary Verb)

VAX tags the auxiliary verbs in the language.

VINT (Verb Infinite)

VINT tags the Verb Infinite in the language. This is generally preceded by
auxiliary verbs or finite verbs.

CVB (Conditional Verb)

CVB tags the Conditional Verb in the language.

VBC (Verbal Contingent)

The VBC is a special characteristic feature of Kannada language which is not


presents other south Dravidian languages like Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam.

CNJ (Conjuncts, both coordinating and subordinating)

The tag CNJ can be used for tagging coordinating and subordinating

conjuncts. QW (Question Words)

The question words in the language like will be tagged as QW.

COM (Complimentizer)

COM tags the Complimentizer in the language.

NNQ (Quantity Noun)

NNQ tags the Quantity Noun in the language.

PPO (Postposition)

All the Indian languages have the phenomenon of postpositions. Postpositions are
tagged using the tag PPO.

DET (Determiners)
The tag DET tags the determiners in the language.
INT (Intensifier)

Intensifier is used for intensifying adjectives or adverbs in a language.

EMP (Emphasis)

The tag EMP tags the Emphasis words in the language.

COMM (Comma)

The tag COMM tags the comma in a sentence.

DOT (Dot)

The tag DOT tags the dots (period) in a sentence.

QM (Question Mark)

The question marks in the language are tagged using the tag QM.

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