JJEPST_RESIDUAL Epistemic stance adjectives (residual)

MFTE JJEPSTother

Definition

Epistemic stance adjectives not in specific subcategories. MFTE’s JJEPSTother = epistemic adjectives (certain, likely, etc.) that don’t fall into specific stance subcategories.

Detection Rules

mfte

Epistemic adjectives from MFTE’s jj_epist_other word list.

cql[word="apparent|certain|clear|confident|convinced|correct|evident|false|impossible|inevitable|obvious|positive|right|sure|true|well-known|doubtful|likely|possible|probable|unlikely" & pos="JJ"]

Requires: word, pos

Normalization

Per words

Sources

  • mfte — Le Foll, Elen & Shakir, Muhammad (2023/2025) : Multi-Feature Tagger of English (MFTE) — Python version

Notes

MFTE tracks specific epistemic adjective types separately. JJEPSTother is the residual that doesn’t match specific patterns.

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