Annotation Guidelines for Hindi

Microsoft Research Labs India Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore

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Contents Table 1.1: Category and their Types ..................................................................................................... 4

Table 1.2: Attributes and their Values .................................................................................................. 5

Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 6

Structure of the Framework (ILPOSTS) ......................................................................................................... 6

Categories: ............................................................................................................................................ 6

Types: .................................................................................................................................................... 6

Attributes: ............................................................................................................................................. 6

Description of Hindi Tagset ........................................................................................................................... 7

Some important points: ............................................................................................................................ 7

Common value .............................................................................................................................. 8

o Not-applicable (0) ..................................................................................................................... 8

o Undecided or doubtful (x) ........................................................................................................ 8

Description of Tags........................................................................................................................................ 8

Categories and their Types: See table 1.1 ..................................................................................... 8

Attributes and their values: see Table 1.2 .................................................................................... 8

1. NOUN (N) ...................................................................................................................................... 8

1.1. COMMON NOUN (NC) .......................................................................................................... 8

1.2. PROPER NOUNS (NP) .......................................................................................................... 13

1.3. VERBAL NOUNS (NV) ........................................................................................................... 14

1.4. SPATIO-TEMPORAL NOUNS (NST) ....................................................................................... 14

2. VERBS (V)..................................................................................................................................... 15

2.1. MAIN VERBS (VM) ............................................................................................................... 15

2.2. AUXILIARY VERBS (VAUX) .................................................................................................... 19

3. PRONOUNS (P) ............................................................................................................................ 20

3.1. PRONOMINALS (PPR) .......................................................................................................... 20

3.2. REFLEXIVE (PRF) .................................................................................................................. 22

3.3. RECIPROCAL (PRC) ............................................................................................................... 23

3.4. RELATIVE (PRL) .................................................................................................................... 23

3.5. WH PRONOUN (PWH) ......................................................................................................... 23

4. NOMINAL MODIFIER (J) .............................................................................................................. 23

4.1. ADJECTIVE (JJ) ..................................................................................................................... 24

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4.2. QUANTIFIERS (JQ) ............................................................................................................... 25

5. DEMONSTRATIVES (D) ................................................................................................................ 26

5.1. ABOSOLUTE DEMONSTRSTIVE (DAB) .................................................................................. 26

5.2. RELATIVE DEMONSTRATIVE (DRL) ...................................................................................... 27

5.3. WH DEMONSTRATIVES (DWH) ............................................................................................ 27

6. ADVERB (A) .................................................................................................................................. 27

6.1. ADVERBS of MANNER (AMN) .............................................................................................. 28

6.2. ADVERBS of LOCATION (ALC) .............................................................................................. 28

7. POSTPOSITION (PP) ..................................................................................................................... 29

8. PARTICLE (C) ................................................................................................................................ 29

8.1. COORDINATING PARTICLES (CCD) ....................................................................................... 30

8.2. SUBORDINATING PARTICLE (CSB) ....................................................................................... 30

8.3. CLASSIFIER PARTICLE (CCL) ................................................................................................. 30

8.4. INTERJECTION (CIN) ............................................................................................................ 30

8.5. OTHERS (CX) ........................................................................................................................ 30

9. PUNCTUATION (PU) .................................................................................................................... 31

10. RESIDUAL (R) ........................................................................................................................... 31

10.1. FOREIGN WORD (RDF) .................................................................................................... 31

10.2. SYMBOL (RDS) ................................................................................................................. 31

10.3. OTHERS (RDX).................................................................................................................. 32

Conclusion ................................................................................................................................................... 32

APPENDIX A: Hindi Tag set .................................................................................................................. 33

APPENDIX B: SPECIAL CASES ............................................................................................................... 36

APPENDIX B: EXAMPLES FROM HINDI ................................................................................................ 38

APPENDIX C: ITrans List ....................................................................................................................... 40

References ...................................................................................................................................... 41

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Table 1.1: Category and their Types

CATEGORY Attributes

NOUN

Common

Proper

Verbal

Spatio-temporal

VERB

Main

Auxiliary

PRONOUN

Pronominal

Reflexive

Reciprocal

Relative

Wh

NOMINAL MODIFIER

Adjective

Quantifier

DEMONSTRATIVE

Absolute

Relative

Wh

ADVERB

Manner

Location

PARTICLE

Coordinating

Subordinating

Classifier

Interjection

Others

Punctuation

RESIDUAL

Foreign word

Symbol

Others

Table 1.1: Category and their Types

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Table 1.2: Attributes and their Values

ATTRIBUTE\

SYMBOL

Value\symbol

GENDER\ GEN Masculine\

mas

Feminine\

fem

NUMBER\NUM Singular\sg Plural\pl

PERSON\PER First\1 Second\2 Third\3

TENSE\TNS Present\prs Past\pst Future\fut

CASE\CS Direct\dir Oblique\obl

CASE MARKER\CSM

Ergative\erg Accusative\

acc

Instrumental

ins

Dative\

dat

Genitive\gen

Sociative\soc Locative\

loc

Ablative\

abl

Benefactive\

bnf

Vocative\

voc

ASPECT\ASP Simple\smp Progressive\

prg

Perfect\pft

MOOD\MOOD Declarative\

dcl

Imperative\imp Habitual\ha