Abstract
Tags are descriptive symbols that are assigned to (simple or complex) words in text, by hand or by machine. Often these tags are called part-of-speech tags, since they typically indicate the part of speech (noun, verb, preposition, etc.) of the word. Autonomous linguistics traditionally recognizes five main levels of analysis: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. The status of parts-of-speech is not obvious in this classification: does parts-of-speech constitute a level of its own; is it included in one or more of the other levels; it there even need to postulate such a linguistic phenomenon as parts-of-speech?
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Voutilainen, A. (1999). Orientation. In: van Halteren, H. (eds) Syntactic Wordclass Tagging. Text, Speech and Language Technology, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9273-4_1
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