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 Research Report on Bangla Tagset

Altaf Mahmud and Mumit Khan

Center for Research on Bangla Language Processing, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
[email protected], [email protected]

Abstract 1. Introduction
This report describes the design of a POS tagset This report describes the design of a tagset for
for Bangla, based on the Penn Treebank design. The Bangla, based on the Penn Treebank design. The
resulting tagset contains 53 morpho-syntactic tags. design is heavily influenced by the wok on Penn
Treebank tagset, and follows the same methodology
[1, 2, 3].

2. Bangla Tagset

Table 1: Bangla Tagset

# Level 1 Level 2 Tag Examples

1 !oun Proper NNP
u, ak



2 Common NNC
 ,  

3 Verbal NNV  ,   ,  ,  

4 Temporal NNT  , 
 , я, 

, 

5 Pronoun First Person PR1 
, 


6 Second Person PR2 
, 
 , o

7 Third Person PR3 , ,   ,  

8 *on Person PRN s, я, 

i, , u

9 Creditable PRC , , ,   ,   ,  

10 Insignificant PRD i,   , o


, 
,  , 
, 
, o,

11 Possessive PR$  ,  

12 TO Pronoun PRTO 
, 
,  ,  ,  ,  

# Level 1 Level 2 Tag Examples

13 Adjective Simple AJ n,  , 
, !", !", !"

, #, #, 
, #
, #
,

14 Verb First Person VB1 
,  i

15 Second Person VB2 , #, #, #, #,  o

, #, #, , #, #,  ,

16 Third Person VB3 r, % 

17 *on Person VBN ,  

, #, #, , #,

18 Creditable VBC #, 


19 Insignificant VBD r, #, #, 

20 Infinite VBIF , ,  

21 Adverb Adverb AV s, dr, ), , * 

22 Conjunction Co-ordinating CC e
, o, 
, a,
, 

23 Subordinating CS  i, 

24 Inflectors AT ICAT e, , 
e,  (i-- -/NNC+ICBY a

25 BY ICBY % % %#)

26 Plural ICS  , e , g, /

27 TO ICTO , , e, , 

28 Possessive IC$ e, 

29 Determinative ICDT - , -

30 Adverbial ICAV o

31 Definitive ICDF i

32 Postposition Common PP d  , 1

2 , %, %i, ,

33 Possessive PP$ я3, 4, 4 i

34 Interjection Interjection UH
h!, oh! % !

, a
3, 
, % ,  , 
2 k ,
35 Indeclinables Simple ID 
4

38
 # Level 1 Level 2 Tag Examples

36 Infinite IDIF 

37 Particle Particle PT ,  ,  , ,

-

38 Onomatopes Onomatopes ON --, , 7 7

39 Cardinal Cardinal CD e, di, 1, 2

40 Determiner Singular DT e-, o-, 

41 Plural DTS 
, o
, , 
;,  ,  , ei, <, #

42 Predeterminer DTP ei/DTP /DTI,  /DTP #/DTI

43 Symbol Symbol SYM =

j 
a st   4h

44 Taka Taka /= A (-   4h)

Sentence Final
45 Punctuation Sentence Final Punctuation | |, ?, !

46 Comma Comma , ,
Colon, Semi-
47 colon Colon, Semi-colon : :, ;

48 Bracket Left Bracket ( ([

49 Right Bracket ) )]

50 Quotation Opening Single Quote ' `

51 Closing Single Quote ' '

52 Opening Double Quote " "

53 Closing Double Quote " "

3. Results /NNP+ICTO 34!5/NNC 

/VBIF$я !

/NNT+IC$+i/PP$+ICDF
!#/NNC+ICAT
A sample text tagged with the tagset is shown 
/VBIF $g'
/NNC+IC$ 7 /NNC я/VBC |/|
below. n /NNP 012 io /NNP+ICAV я
/NNC+ICATя8/VBC,/,
!#/NNC+ICAT

/AJ яl- l
/NNC+IC$a
/NNC 
/VBIF ps/AJ o/PRC+ICAV|/| я
 /VBIF tt /AJ


/NNC o/CC /NNC /NNC+ICAT
я /AJ
/NNC+ICAT
/NNC
s

/NNC+IC$/NNC+ICAT :;
/NNC+IC$ k=/NNC o/CC s /NNC
p/AJ i /CD !/NNC e#/NNP o/CC > /AV
/VBC|/| u0 /DTI3/NNC #@7 /AJ
$o%/NNP !%&
/NNP+IC$ '
-

/AJ
 /NNC b5/NNC+ICAT /NNC+ICDT

m /NNC #)/NNC+ICAT
!#/NNC 'c/VB3 я/VBC|/|
$я !
/NNC+IC$ +i/PP$+ICDF|/| $o%/NNP
!#/NNC+ICAT
/VBIFi/CD!
/NNC+I
!%&
/NNP

/AJ
m /NNC $b!/NNP C$ps/NNC1 Bn/AJ'o/VB3
я!!/NNP & !/NNT 
/NNP #
/NNC+ICAT 3
/NNC+IC$0n/AJs

/NNC+IC$
/NNC+I
e#
/NNP+IC$ '
/NNC o/CC s%/AJ C$+/PP$ss
/NNC+IC$



nt%/NNC $b!/NNP n/NNP 012 i 0/NNC3F/VBIF)c/VB3|/|

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 0n/AJ
яG /AJ!/NNC
  /NNC+ICDT+ICTO i /AJ
!/VBIFs&/NNCя8/VB3|/|
a+/ID e/DTI as
/NNC+IC$ +i/PP$+ICDF
$я/NNT

/NNP 1/CD ak
/NNP e#/NNP
o/CC 
/PR$ 

/NNC+ICS #!/NNC
8/VB3
‘/’ 304/ AJp/AJ ‘/ 
/NNC |/|
  /NNC+ICDT+ICTO 
%/AJ !/NNC
$o%/NNP !%&/ NNP#!/NNC
8/VB3 ‘/’
!/AJ 
/NNC ‘/ '
/PP |/| !/AJ
яG /AJ

 4/NNC 

/NNC+ICAT i/CD !
/NNC+IC$
+/PP$
K/NNC 3L
/NNC+IC$ +/PP$
a /PRC $я
/NNT+IC$ ei/DTI
4 /NNC+ICTO 
#)#1=/ NNC '
i/PP+ICDF
3F8/VBC |/|

4. Conclusion
This report presents a Bangla part-of-speech
(POS) tagset that is based on the Penn Treebank
tagset design. The tagset contains 53 2-level tags. A
sample text tagged with this tagset is shown.

5. References

[1] B. Santorini, Part-of-speech tagging guidelines

for the Penn Treebank Project. Technical report MS-
CIS-90--47, Department of Computer and
Information Science, University of Pennsylvania,
1990.

[2] M.P. Marcus, M.A. Marcinkiewicz, and B.

Santorini, “Building a large annotated corpus of
English: the Penn Treebank”, Comput. Linguist. 19,
2, June, 1993, pp. 313-330.

[3] M. Marcus, G. Kim, M.A. Marcinkiewicz, R.

MacIntyre, A. Bies, M. Ferguson, K. Katz, and B.
Schasberger, “The Penn Treebank: annotating
predicate argument structure”, In Proceedings of the
Workshop on Human Language Technology, Human
Language Technology Conference, Association for
Computational Linguistics, Morristown, Plainsboro,
NJ, March 08 - 11, 1994, pp. 114-119.

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