Eckhard Bick - VISL

Another case, where meaning bearing characters and punctuation can form a word
together, are Arab numbers (tagged NUM ).
(3a) 12.7
1,000,000
12-7
3/4
3:4
(3b1) o 10. mandamento
(3b2) Veja capítulo 7.
(3b3) Tomo VII.
(3c) a 2ª Guerra Mundial
o 5º degrão
(3d) A aula começa às 8h15
Here, a dot, comma, slash, colon or dash flanked by numbers without spaces (3a),
will be regarded as numeral-internal. Thus, both 12.7 and 1,000,000 will receive the
tag chain ‘ NUM M/F P’. Also more complex expressions like 12-7, 3/4
or 3:4 will be recognised as numeral wholes.
If the dot is word final (3b), however, the word class ‘ ADJ M/F
S’ is assigned, classifying ordinal numbers as a subclass of adjectives. Unless, that
is, the number is an integer smaller than 100, and the tagger has classified the
preceding word as a prenumeral (tag , e.g. 'Veja capítulo 7.' - 'See chapter
7.'). In this case the dot is treated as sentence delimiter, and the numeral as
‘ NUM @N