W dniu 27.04.2016 o 11:43, Mike Unwalla pisze: > Hi All, > > English tagset.txt explains the meaning of each postag, and includes these 2 > lines: > NN:U Mass noun #new tag - deviation from Penn: admiration, > air, Afrikaans > NN:UN Noun used as mass #new tag - deviation from Penn: establishment, > wax, afternoon > > What is the difference between NN:U and NN:UN?
NN:U - nouns that are always uncountable. NN:UN - nouns that might be used in the plural form and with an indefinite article, depending on their meaning (for example, "information"). > What features of a word cause that word to be categorised the way it is? There's a hard-coded list of such words, and some simple heuristics (words that end with -ation are usually abstract nouns). The script that does is found at languagetool\languagetool-language-modules\en\src\main\resources\org\languagetool\resource\en\get_unc.awk The list of uncountable nouns is in uncountable.txt, and partly countable in partlycountable.txt. Feel free to edit those, and let me know when you want to recreate the dictionary (we shouldn't do it too frequently, as binary files do not sit well with github's infrastructure). > Why, for example, is 'air' NN:U and 'wax' NN:UN? This list was prepared manually based on some corpus searches and dictionaries. Actually, 'air' should be 'NN:UN'. My principle was that if there's a plural or indefinite article use of a noun, it should be 'NN:UN', but to be safe, I assumed NN:UN to be the default option (so that there would be no complaint in the rules that use the countable/uncountable distinction). Feel Regards, Marcin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications Manager Applications Manager provides deep performance insights into multiple tiers of your business applications. It resolves application problems quickly and reduces your MTTR. Get your free trial! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/302982198;130105516;z _______________________________________________ Languagetool-devel mailing list Languagetool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/languagetool-devel
