Part-of-speech annotation with UD (universal dependency) tags for English translated from Penn part-of-speech tags
Standard reference
Manning, Christopher D., Mihai Surdeanu, John Bauer, Jenny Finkel, Steven J. Bethard, and David McClosky. 2014. The Stanford CoreNLP Natural Language Processing Toolkit In Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, pp. 55-60.
Analysis citation
Språkbanken (2026). sbx-eng-upos-stanford (updated: 2026-05-12). [Analysis]. Enriched and distributed by Språkbanken. https://doi.org/10.23695/xwtg-h828
Additional ways to cite the dataset.
Example
This analysis is used with Sparv. Check out Sparv's quick start guide to get started!
To use this analysis, add the following line under export.annotations in the Sparv corpus configuration file:
- <token>:stanford.upos # Part-of-speeches in UD
In order to use this annotation you need to add the following setting to your Sparv corpus configuration file:
metadata:
language: eng
For more info on how to use Sparv, check out the Sparv documentation.
Example output:
<token upos="PROPN">Language</token>
<token upos="VERB">is</token>
<token upos="DET">the</token>
<token upos="ADJ">human</token>
<token upos="NOUN">ability</token>
<token upos="PART">to</token>
<token upos="VERB">acquire</token>
<token upos="CONJ">and</token>
<token upos="VERB">use</token>
<token upos="ADJ">complex</token>
<token upos="NOUN">systems</token>
<token upos="ADP">of</token>
<token upos="NOUN">communication</token>
<token upos="X">.</token>
Other references
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Bill MacCartney and Christopher D. Manning. 2006. Generating Typed Dependency Parses from Phrase Structure Parses. In LREC 2006.