The tags and language-specific characteristics of each tagger are described in the documents associated with each language module. However, some characteristics apply to all the taggers. These are described in this and the following sections. For the language-specific information, see the documents shipped with each tagger language module. This section describes the various abbreviations used for features in tags.
Tags consist of feature names separated by hyphens.
The first feature name is called the major category and usually specifies the part of speech of the word. Not all languages use these feature names to mean the exact same categories, but the categories denoted are very similar. The following table lists the parts of speech and other major categories identified by all the supported languages. Groups of digits together denote disjunction. When a feature appears in all lower case, as in the tag Prep-para from the Spanish tagger, it stands for a word in that language, and means that the word's distribution differs in some way from that of other words of its category.