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From: pardoej@lonnds.ml.com (Julian Pardoe LADS LDN X1428)
Subject: Re: parts of speech on-line?
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Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 15:36:02 GMT
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In article <31F8EF64.4D48@atinet.org>, Steve Mitchell <steve@atinet.org> wrote:
> I'm trying to find a machine readable list of English words with
> their parts of speech.  Given a sample of text, I am attempting to
> find out how many words are nouns and how many are verbs.  
> 
> Does anybody know of a source of such information?
> 
> Thank you for any pointers.
> 
> --steve

In English (almost) all verbs can function as nouns and (almost) all nouns
can function as verbs ("Any noun can be verbed" as they say) so you can't
just look at individual words in isolation, you have to analyse the sentence.

-- jP --

