brill

brill

The part-of-speech tags from the Brill-tagger: 89,539 unique words/symbols with one or more tags.

Installation

npm:

npm install brill

Usage

var brill = require('brill');

Object.keys(brill).length; // 89539

brill.Eric;
// [ 'NNP' ]
// (Proper Noun, singular)

brill['most-contentious'];
// [ 'RB|VBG' ]
// (Adverb; Verb, present participle/gerund)

brill.AA;
// [ 'JJ', 'NN', 'NNP' ]
// (Adjective; Noun, singular or mass; Proper Noun, singular)

API

brill

brill exposes an object where the keys are words and the values are a list of tags / joined tags (Object.<string>).

Capitalisation

Some words are included as all-caps, first-capital, lowercase, or other:

brill.THAT; // [ 'WDT', 'DT' ]
brill.That; // [ 'DT', 'NNP', 'PDT', 'IN', 'RB', 'WP', 'WDT' ]
brill.that; // [ 'IN', 'DT', 'NN', 'RB', 'RP', 'UH', 'WP', 'VBP', 'WDT' ]

It’s recommended to check a given word first in its original form, and second, if no tags are found, in its lowercase form.

Related

• buzzwords — List of buzzwords;
• fillers — List of filler words;
• hedges — List of hedge words;
• profanities — List of profane words;
• dale-chall — List of familiar American-English words: New Dale-Chall (1995);
• weasels — List of weasel words.

License

MIT © Titus Wormer