9 Copy all the files on all the disks to a folder on your hard disk (make sure you
10 have at least four (4) megabytes of free disk space per disk of product).
11 Set your directory ('CD') to the new folder, type BUILD and press (enter).
12 The files that were extracted may be viewed and manipulated by any capable
13 text editor or word processor, such as Microsoft Word 5.x.
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64 Moby (tm) Part-of-Speech II for MSDOS operating systems is compressed
65 and distributed on one HD double sided diskette. After decompression
66 the vocabulary file included with this product is in ordinary ASCII
67 format with CRLF (ASCII 13/10) delimiters.
69 This second edition is a particularly thorough revision of the original
70 Moby Part-of-Speech. Beyond the fifteen thousand new entries,
71 many thousand more entries have been scrutinized for correctness
72 and modernity. This is unquestionably the largest P-O-S list in the
73 world. Note that the many included phrases means that parsing
74 algorithms can now tokenize in units larger than a single word,
75 increasing both speed *and* accuracy.
81 Each part-of-speech vocabulary entry consists of a word or phrase
82 field followed by a field delimiter of (ASCII 215) and the
83 part-of-speech field that is coded using the following ASCII symbols
84 (case is significant):
94 Verb (usu participle) V
120 This two-part vocabulary record is delimited from others with CRLF
121 (ASCII 13/10). For example, engineer Nt means that the word engineer
122 has two main uses in English; the principal part-of-speech is as a noun
123 "That engineer could write in microcode with one hand and in ADA
124 with the other" and its secondary part-of-speech is as a transitive verb:
125 "We sure engineered that software to death."
127 In many cases, the -ed, -ing,
128 -ly, and -ic forms of words are not explicitly listed; the participle forms
129 of verbs will be usually marked simply with the V sign rather than the
130 more specific t or i symbols. Words such as "be," which often have
131 more than one head entry in a dictionary, have one listing with all the
132 parts-of-speech for all senses concatenated. Foreign words commonly
133 used in English usually include their diacritical marks, for example, the
134 acute accent e is denoted by ASCII 142.