Part of Speech Tagging
Part of Speech Tagging is the process of adding a label to every single word in a text, identifying the type of word it is.
Below is a list of the POS tags and their meaning…
[su_expand]CC coordinating conjunction
CD cardinal digit
DT determiner
EX existential there (like: “there is” … think of it like “there exists”)
FW foreign word
IN preposition/subordinating conjunction
JJ adjective ‘big’
JJR adjective, comparative ‘bigger’
JJS adjective, superlative ‘biggest’
LS list marker 1)
MD modal could, will
NN noun, singular ‘desk’
NNS noun plural ‘desks’
NNP proper noun, singular ‘Harrison’
NNPS proper noun, plural ‘Americans’
PDT predeterminer ‘all the kids’
POS possessive ending parent\’s
PRP personal pronoun I, he, she
PRP$ possessive pronoun my, his, hers
RB adverb very, silently,
RBR adverb, comparative better
RBS adverb, superlative best
RP particle give up
TO to go ‘to’ the store.
UH interjection errrrrrrrm
VB verb, base form take
VBD verb, past tense took
VBG verb, gerund/present participle taking
VBN verb, past participle taken
VBP verb, sing. present, non-3d take
VBZ verb, 3rd person sing. present takes
WDT wh-determiner which
WP wh-pronoun who, what
WP$ possessive wh-pronoun whose
WRB wh-abverb where, when[/su_expand]
This time round a different Tokenizer is used – PunktSentenceTokenizer.
This is a machine learning tokenizer which can be trained first on some training data and then applied.
In the example two of GW Bush’s speeches are used: 2005 to train and then that tokenizer applied to the 2006’s speech.
The output of the tokenizer is then passed to POS tag function to create tuples of the words in the speech and the corresponding POS tag.
import nltk
from nltk.corpus import state_union
from nltk.tokenize import PunktSentenceTokenizer
train_text = state_union.raw("2005-GWBush.txt")
sample_text = state_union.raw("2006-GWBush.txt")
custom_sent_tokenizer = PunktSentenceTokenizer(train_text)
tokenized = custom_sent_tokenizer.tokenize(sample_text)
def process_content():
try:
for x in tokenized[:5]:
words = nltk.word_tokenize(x)
tagged = nltk.pos_tag(words)
print(tagged)
except Exception as e:
print(str(e))
process_content()
Note: tokenized[:5] limits the example to only a few lines of the speech
Giving the output….
galiquis@raspberrypi: $ python3 ./nltk_tutorial4.py
[(‘PRESIDENT’, ‘NNP’), (‘GEORGE’, ‘NNP’), (‘W.’, ‘NNP’), (‘BUSH’, ‘NNP’), (“‘S”, ‘POS’), (‘ADDRESS’, ‘NNP’), (‘BEFORE’, ‘IN’), (‘A’, ‘NNP’), (‘JOINT’, ‘NNP’), (‘SESSION’, ‘NNP’),
(‘OF’, ‘IN’), (‘THE’, ‘NNP’), (‘CONGRESS’, ‘NNP’), (‘ON’, ‘NNP’), (‘THE’, ‘NNP’), (‘STATE’, ‘NNP’), (‘OF’, ‘IN’), (‘THE’, ‘NNP’), (‘UNION’, ‘NNP’), (‘January’, ‘NNP’), (’31’, ‘CD’), (‘,’, ‘,’), (‘2006’, ‘CD’), (‘THE’, ‘NNP’), (‘PRESIDENT’, ‘NNP’), (‘:’, ‘:’), (‘Thank’, ‘NNP’), (‘you’, ‘PRP’), (‘all’, ‘DT’), (‘.’, ‘.’)]
[(‘Mr.’, ‘NNP’), (‘Speaker’, ‘NNP’), (‘,’, ‘,’), (‘Vice’, ‘NNP’), (‘President’, ‘NNP’), (‘Cheney’, ‘NNP’), (‘,’, ‘,’), (‘members’, ‘NNS’), (‘of’, ‘IN’), (‘Congress’, ‘NNP’), (‘,’, ‘,’), (‘members’, ‘NNS’), (‘of’, ‘IN’), (‘the’, ‘DT’), (‘Supreme’, ‘NNP’), (‘Court’, ‘NNP’), (‘and’, ‘CC’), (‘diplomatic’, ‘JJ’), (‘corps’, ‘NN’), (‘,’, ‘,’), (‘distinguished’, ‘JJ’), (‘guests’, ‘NNS’), (‘,’, ‘,’), (‘and’, ‘CC’), (‘fellow’, ‘JJ’), (‘citizens’, ‘NNS’), (‘:’, ‘:’), (‘Today’, ‘VB’), (‘our’, ‘PRP$’), (‘nation’, ‘NN’), (‘lost’, ‘VBD’), (‘a’, ‘DT’), (‘beloved’, ‘VBN’), (‘,’, ‘,’), (‘graceful’, ‘JJ’), (‘,’, ‘,’), (‘courageous’, ‘JJ’), (‘woman’, ‘NN’), (‘who’, ‘WP’), (‘called’, ‘VBD’), (‘America’, ‘NNP’), (‘to’, ‘TO’), (‘its’, ‘PRP$’), (‘founding’, ‘NN’), (‘ideals’, ‘NNS’), (‘and’, ‘CC’), (‘carried’, ‘VBD’), (‘on’, ‘IN’), (‘a’, ‘DT’), (‘noble’, ‘JJ’), (‘dream’, ‘NN’), (‘.’, ‘.’)]
[(‘Tonight’, ‘NN’), (‘we’, ‘PRP’), (‘are’, ‘VBP’), (‘comforted’, ‘VBN’), (‘by’, ‘IN’), (‘the’, ‘DT’), (‘hope’, ‘NN’), (‘of’, ‘IN’), (‘a’, ‘DT’), (‘glad’, ‘JJ’), (‘reunion’, ‘NN’), (‘with’, ‘IN’), (‘the’, ‘DT’), (‘husband’, ‘NN’), (‘who’, ‘WP’), (‘was’, ‘VBD’), (‘taken’, ‘VBN’), (‘so’, ‘RB’), (‘long’, ‘RB’), (‘ago’, ‘RB’), (‘,’, ‘,’), (‘and’, ‘CC’), (‘we’,
‘PRP’), (‘are’, ‘VBP’), (‘grateful’, ‘JJ’), (‘for’, ‘IN’), (‘the’, ‘DT’), (‘good’, ‘JJ’), (‘life’, ‘NN’), (‘of’, ‘IN’), (‘Coretta’, ‘NNP’), (‘Scott’, ‘NNP’), (‘King’, ‘NNP’), (‘.’, ‘.’)]
[(‘(‘, ‘(‘), (‘Applause’, ‘NNP’), (‘.’, ‘.’), (‘)’, ‘)’)]
[(‘President’, ‘NNP’), (‘George’, ‘NNP’), (‘W.’, ‘NNP’), (‘Bush’, ‘NNP’), (‘reacts’, ‘VBZ’), (‘to’, ‘TO’), (‘applause’, ‘VB’), (‘during’, ‘IN’), (‘his’, ‘PRP$’), (‘State’, ‘NNP’), (‘of’, ‘IN’), (‘the’, ‘DT’), (‘Union’, ‘NNP’), (‘Address’, ‘NNP’), (‘at’, ‘IN’), (‘the’, ‘DT’), (‘Capitol’, ‘NNP’), (‘,’, ‘,’), (‘Tuesday’, ‘NNP’), (‘,’, ‘,’), (‘Jan’, ‘NNP’), (‘.’, ‘.’)]