The Stanford NLP, demo'd here, gives an output like this:
Colorless/JJ green/JJ ideas/NNS sleep/VBP furiously/RB ./.
What do the Part of Speech tags mean? I am unable to find an official list. Is it Stanford's own system, or are they using universal tags? (What is JJ, for instance?)
Also, when I am iterating through the sentences, looking for nouns, for instance, I end up doing something like checking to see if the tag .contains('N'). This feels pretty weak. Is there a better way to programmatically search for a certain part of speech?
I know it is pretty old question but let me answer just for someone else reference.
ReplyDeleteYou can find the POS tags meaning from the resource
http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/J/J93/J93-2004.pdf
JJ means Adjective.
As of now I am also searching for a specific POS tag by traversing through the parse tree and searching for a specing POS using contains method of string class. If you find any other better solution please let me know :)