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Table 3 List of POS tag and syntactic dependency labels

From: NETME: on-the-fly knowledge network construction from biomedical literature

POS tag

Dependency label

Symbol

Meaning

Symbol

Meaning

ADD

email

acl

clausal modifier of noun (adjectival clause)

AFX

affix

acomp

adjectival complement

CC

conjunction, coordinating

advcl

adverbial clause modifier

CD

cardinal number

advmod

adverbial modifier

DT

determiner

agent

agent

EX

existential there

amod

adjectival modifier

FW

foreign word

appos

appositional modifier

HYPH

punctuation mark, hyphen

attr

attribute

IN

conjunction, subordinating or preposition

aux

auxiliary

JJ

adjective

auxpass

auxiliary (passive)

JJR

adjective, comparative

case

case marking

JJS

adjective, superlative

cc

coordinating conjunction

LS

list item marker

ccomp

clausal complement

MD

verb, modal auxiliary

compound

compound

NFP

superfluous punctuation

conj

conjunct

NN

noun, singular or mass

csubj

clausal subject

NNP

noun, proper singular

csubjpass

clausal subject (passive)

NNPS

noun, proper plural

dative

dative

NNS

noun, plural

dep

unclassified dependent

PDT

predeterminer

det

determiner

POS

possessive ending

dobj

direct object

PRP

pronoun, personal

expl

expletive

PRP$

pronoun, possessive

intj

interjection

RB

adverb

mark

marker

RBR

adverb, comparative

meta

meta modifier

RBS

adverb, superlative

neg

negation modifier

RP

adverb, particle

nmod

modifier of nominal

SYM

symbol

npadvmod

noun phrase as adverbial modifier

TO

infinitival “to”

nsubj

nominal subject

UH

interjection

nsubjpass

nominal subject (passive)

VB

verb, base form

nummod

numeric modifier

VBD

verb, past tense

oprd

object predicate

VBG

verb, gerund or present participle

parataxis

parataxis

VBN

verb, past participle

pcomp

complement of preposition

VBP

verb, non-3rd person singular present

pobj

object of preposition

VBZ

verb, 3rd person singular present

poss

possession modifier

WDT

wh-determiner

preconj

pre-correlative conjunction

WP

wh-pronoun, personal

predet

None

WP$

wh-pronoun, possessive

prep

prepositional modifier

WRB

wh-adverb

prt

particle

punct

punctuation

quantmod

modifier of quantifier

relcl

relative clause modifier

xcomp

open clausal complement