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A..2 Part-of-speech tags and useful regular expressions

A..2.0.1 The English PENN tagset (DICKENS)

NN  Common noun, singular or mass noun
NNS  Common noun, plural
NP, NPS  Proper noun, singular/plural
N.*  Matches any common or proper noun
PP.*  Matches any pronoun (personal or possessive)
JJ  Adjective
JJR, JJS  Adjective, comparative/superlative
VB.*  Matches any verbal form
VBG, VGN  Present/past participle
RB  Adverb
RBR, RBS  Adverb, comparative/superlative
MD  Modal
DT  Determiner
PDT  Predeterminer
IN  Preposition, subordinating conjunction
CC  Coordinating conjunction
TO  Any use of “to”
RP  Particle
WP  Wh-pronoun
WDT  Wh-determiner
SENT  Sentence-final punctuation

A..2.0.2 The German STTS tagset (GERMAN-LAW)

NN  Common noun (singular or pluarl)
NE  Proper noun (singular or plural)
N.  Matches any nominal form
PP.*  Matches any pronoun (personal or possessive)
ADJA  Attributive adjective
ADJD  Predicative adjective (also when used adverbially)
ADJ.  Matches any adjectival form
VV.*  Matches any full verb
VA.*  Matches any auxilliary verb
VM.*  Matches any modal verb
V.*  Matches any verbal form
ADV  Adverb
ART  Determiner
APPR  Preposition
APPRART  Fused preposition and determiner
KO.*  Matches any conjunction
TRUNC  Truncated word (e.g. “unter-”)
\$\.  Sentence-final punctuation
\$,  Sentence-internal punctuation