Java Stanford NLP: Part of Speech labels?

Question

The Stanford NLP, demo\'d here, gives an output like this:

Colorless/JJ green/JJ ideas/NNS sleep/VBP furiously/RB ./.

What do the Part of S

Answer 1

Stanford CoreNLP Tags for Other Languages : French, Spanish, German ...

I see you use the parser for English language, which is the default model. You may use the parser for other languages (French, Spanish, German ...) and, be aware, both tokenizers and part of speech taggers are different for each language. If you want to do that, you must download the specific model for the language (using a builder like Maven for example) and then set the model you want to use. Here you have more information about that.

Here you are lists of tags for different languages :

1. Stanford CoreNLP POS Tags for Spanish
2. Stanford CoreNLP POS Tagger for German uses the Stuttgart-Tübingen Tag Set (STTS)
3. Stanford CoreNLP POS tagger for French uses the following tags:

TAGS FOR FRENCH:

Part of Speech Tags for French

A     (adjective)
Adv   (adverb)
CC    (coordinating conjunction)
Cl    (weak clitic pronoun)
CS    (subordinating conjunction)
D     (determiner)
ET    (foreign word)
I     (interjection)
NC    (common noun)
NP    (proper noun)
P     (preposition)
PREF  (prefix)
PRO   (strong pronoun)
V     (verb)
PONCT (punctuation mark)

Phrasal Categories Tags for French:

AP     (adjectival phrases)
AdP    (adverbial phrases)
COORD  (coordinated phrases)
NP     (noun phrases)
PP     (prepositional phrases)
VN     (verbal nucleus)
VPinf  (infinitive clauses)
VPpart (nonfinite clauses)
SENT   (sentences)
Sint, Srel, Ssub (finite clauses)

Syntactic Functions for French:

SUJ    (subject)
OBJ    (direct object)
ATS    (predicative complement of a subject)
ATO    (predicative complement of a direct object)
MOD    (modifier or adjunct)
A-OBJ  (indirect complement introduced by à)
DE-OBJ (indirect complement introduced by de)
P-OBJ  (indirect complement introduced by another preposition)