Information Sheet: Stuttgart-Tübingen Tagset (STTS)

General Description

The STTS consists of 54 part of speech tags for the annotation of German text corpora. It was developed jointly at the Institut für maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung der Universität Stuttgart and at the Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Tübingen

The STTS is employed in many corpora, including for example the TüBa-D (Tübingen treebank of German), and the Tiger treebank. The syntactic annotation used within the project Kollokationen im Wörterbuch is also based on the STTS.

Links:

• General information about STTS and a stylebook for the use of the STTS Tags.

Specific Information on the Use of STTS in CoDII

The Syntactic Category of a Distributionally Idiosyncratic Item

We usually indicate the syntactic category of a distributionally idiosyncratic item with a prefix of an STTS tag. For example, we write "VV" for verbs which can appear in any of their inflected forms.

Examples of the tags we use:

• ADJ: Adjectives
• ADJD: Adjectives which are exclusively used predicatively
  

  Example:		Ich lass mir den Film nicht madig machen.
  	*	Das war ein madiger Film.

• NN: Nouns
• VV: Main verbs
• KON: Conjunctions

Syntactic Categories of Expressions with Distributionally Idiosyncratic Items

Every word which occurs in an expression will receive an individual STTS tag in the syntactic characterization of the expression. We will use the general tags (ADJ, VV) whenever possible. Note that X, Y, ... stand for arbitrary constituents of the indicated syntactic category. A noun (NN) may be replaced by a pronoun, of course.