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Looking at part-of-speech annotation in WordSmith

 

In this session we will be looking at part-of-speech (POS) annotation. You may also come across the terms "(grammatical) wordclass annotation" or "morphosyntactic annotation", or even more confusingly just "tagging". They all refer to the same thing!

Introduction to part-of-speech annotation and the BNC Sampler

Variation across part-of-speech for "talk"

Comparing frequencies for corpora of different sizes

Phrasal verbs

 

When you have finished this session, you might like to have a look at the WordSmith review questions.

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