Plural Common Noun
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A Plural Common Noun is a Common Noun that has been Pluralized.
- AKA: NNS.
- Context:
- It can be tagged with a NNS in Penn Treebank Format.
- It can (typically) have only Lower Case Letters.
- It can represent an Entity Type.
- It can be related to a Singular Common Noun, for example: Singular(undergraduates) ⇒ undergraduate.
- Example(s):
- undergraduates scotches bric-a-brac products bodyguards facets coasts divestitures storehouses designs clubs fragrances averages subjectivists apprehensions muses factory-jobs … (from Penn Treebank).
- ?? “protein” because it refers to the class of all proteins.
- …
- Counter-Example(s):
- Singular Common Noun: carrier cabbage knuckle-duster Casino afghan shed thermostat investment slide humour falloff slick wind hyena override subhumanity machinist ...
- ?? “protein” because it refers to the class of all proteins.
- See: Plural Proper Noun.
References
- The University of Pennsylvania (Penn) Treebank Tag-set
- http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/amalgam/tagsets/upenn.html
- Further reading: Santorini, B. (1990). Part-of-speech tagging guidelines for the Penn Treebank Project. Technical report MS-CIS-90-47, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania.