Newer tagset for POS Tagging.

fewer classes and simpler, more generic classes, more readable

broad categories -

  • open class
    • expect new words to be added - e.g. proper nouns, nouns, verbs, adjective, adverbs, interjections
  • closed class
    • new words cannot be added- e.g. adposition (pre/post positions), pronouns? , determiners, etc
  • other

Universal POS tags (universaldependencies.org)