Eckhard Bick - VISL

annotation system (probably inherited directly from the English system described in
Karlsson et.al. [1995]), allowing direct comparison in terms of parsing output and
performance. While there is almost complete conceptual overlap with regard to PoS
categories, there are more differences on the syntactic level. Thus, the tags for
dependents of nominal heads differ as to which type of tag is used to convey tagging
information. Thus, Portuguese does not add word class and semantic class
information to the functional tags, as is the case for @QN>, @DN>, @AN>, @NN>
etc. in the English and Swedish systems. A more important difference is that the
Portuguese parser tags dependency direction on the clause level (e.g. @ACC> vs.
@