Department of Computer Science

A comparison of semantic tagging with syntactic Part-of-Speech tagging leads us to propose that a domain-independent semantic tagger for English corpora should not aim to annotate each word with an atomic ‘sem-tag’, but instead that a semantic tagging should attach to each word a set of semantic primitive attributes or features. These features should include: − lemma or root, grouping together inflected and derived forms of the same lexical item; − broad subject categories where applicable;