NN_RESIDUAL Common nouns (residual)
Definition
Common nouns with no semantic subcategory tag. MFTE’s NNother = NN tokens that have ONLY the NN tag, no additional semantic tags (NNHUMAN, NNCOG, NNCONC, etc.) appended.
Detection Rules
mfte
NN residual = common nouns minus semantic categories. Uses count subtraction since MFTE allows multiple tags per token. NNP excluded because MFTE tracks proper nouns separately.
cql[pos="NN|NNS"]
combine: _ & -NOMZ & -NNHUMAN & -NNCOG & -NNCONC & -NNTECH & -NNPLACE & -NNQUANT & -NNGRP & -NNABSPROC
Normalization
Per words
Sources
- mfte — Le Foll, Elen & Shakir, Muhammad (2023/2025) : Multi-Feature Tagger of English (MFTE) — Python version
Notes
MFTE appends semantic tags to NN rather than replacing. NNother = NN tokens where no semantic tag was appended. This approximation uses count subtraction which may not exactly match MFTE if there’s overlap between semantic categories.