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Part-of-Speech Tagging

Natural Language Processing · Level 2 of 5

Part-of-Speech Tagging

Assigning grammatical categories to words in context.

The same spelling may receive different tags in different sentences.

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A system labels run as a verb in one sentence and a noun in another.

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Part-of-Speech Tagging. Assigning grammatical categories to words in context. The same spelling may receive different tags in different sentences. For example: A system labels run as a verb in one sentence and a noun in another.

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