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Part-of-speech tagging

part uv SPEECH TAG-ing

/pɑːrt əv spiːtʃ ˈtæɡɪŋ/

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Syllable breakdown

partofspeechtagging

Dictionary meaning

The process of assigning a grammatical category — such as noun, verb, adjective, or adverb — to each word in a text corpus, serving as a fundamental step in many NLP pipelines including parsing, information extraction, and machine translation.

Examples

Part-of-speech tagging helps disambiguate words like 'bank', which can be a noun or a verb.
Early NLP systems relied on hand-crafted rules for part-of-speech tagging; modern systems use neural networks.

Synonyms: POS tagging, grammatical tagging, word-category disambiguation

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