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Moby (tm) Part-of-Speech II Documentation Notes

This documentation, the software and/or database are:

Public Domain material by grant from the author, January, 2001.

Moby (tm) Part-of-Speech II for MSDOS operating systems is compressed and distributed as a single zip file. After decompression the part-of-speech file included with this product is in ordinary ASCII format with CRLF (ASCII 13/10) delimiters.

MOBY Part-of-Speech II CONTENTS

Read Me First File (aaREADME.txt)
Part-of-Speech (mobypos.txt)

Quick Start 1) Insure you have at least 3Mb of free disk space to hold the contents of this zip file. 2) Create a directory to hold these files listed above. 3) Extract the contents of this zip file into the destination directory using any compatible zip file extraction utility. 4) Delete the original zip file from your disk to save space. (optional)

This second edition is a particularly thorough revision of the original Moby Part-of-Speech. Beyond the fifteen thousand new entries, many thousand more entries have been scrutinized for correctness and modernity. This is unquestionably the largest P-O-S list in the world. Note that the many included phrases means that parsing algorithms can now tokenize in units larger than a single word, increasing both speed *and* accuracy.

Database Legend:

Each part-of-speech vocabulary entry consists of a word or phrase field followed by a field delimiter of the backslash (\) and the part-of-speech field that is coded using the following ASCII symbols (case is significant):

Noun N

Plural p

Noun Phrase h

Verb (usu