POS Tagging
Before we dive straight into the algorithm, let's understand what parts of speech are. Parts of speech are something most of us are taught in our early years of learning the English language. They are categories assigned to words based on their syntactic or grammatical functions. These functions are the functional relationships that exist between different words.
Parts of Speech
The English language has nine main parts of speech:
- Nouns: Things or people
- Examples: table, dog, piano, London, towel
- Pronouns: Words that replace nouns
- Examples: I, you, he, she, it
- Verbs: Action words
- Examples: to be, to have, to study, to learn, to play
- Adjectives: Words that describe nouns
- Examples: intelligent, small, silly, intriguing, blue
- Determiners: Words that limit nouns
- Examples: a few, many, some, three
Note
For more examples of determiners, visit https://www.ef.com/in/english-resources/english-grammar/determiners/.
- Adverbs: Words that describe...