hausa

Repository for Hausa NLP tools

Part of speech tagger model

hausa_model.par Version 2.0

A simple part-of-speech tagging model for Hausa in Boko orthography, for use with the freely available TreeTagger: http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/~schmid/tools/TreeTagger/

Portmanteau tags are used in orthographic words fusing two part of speech categories (see below).

Basic tags

• ADJ adjective
• ADV adverb
• CONJ conjunction
• EXIST existential verboid (akwai, babu)
• FM foreign material (not Hausa)
• FOC focus marker / copula (ne, ce)
• FUT future marker (za)
• INTJ interjection
• LINK linking na or ta ('of')
• N noun
• NEG negation
• NUM numeral
• PAC person-aspect complex (e.g. ya-)
• PDEM demonstrative
• PIND indefinite pronoun
• PINT interrogative
• PPOS possessive pronoun
• PPRS personal pronoun
• PREL relative pronoun
• PROG progressive person aspect complex (e.g. ina-, nake-)
• PRP preposition
• PTC particle
• PUNCT punctuation
• QUANT quantifier
• V verb

Portmanteau tags

• FUT_PAC fused future + PAC marker (zai, zan)
• NEG_PAC PAC fused with negation (e.g. ban)
• PAC_V fused PAC and verb form (e.g. yayi, spelled together)
• PPRS_FOC fused personal pronoun + copula spelled together (shine)
• PPRS_PROG fused personal pronoun + progressive PAC (shike)
• PREL_PAC fused relative + PAC (daya)
• PREL_PROG fused relative + progressive PAC (dake)
• PROG_ADV fused progressive person aspect complex + ADV (e.g. kenan)