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Value abbr

The value abbreviation encodes abbreviations and achronyms which are, hence, indistinguished between them, Sisde, CEE, Kmh.

type=abbr
D e s c r i p t i o nE x a m p l e s
abbreviationsIBM/abbr   CEE/abbr   Kmh/abbr  

When tagging, depending on the level of detail one wants to reach, their syntactic category (function) and morphological features can be preferably manually provided (with the same rules and constraints described for the syntactic categories), since they are considered important for further NLP applications - e.g. they allow to control agreement -: IBM = XA@SFS

type=abbr
D e s c r i p t i o nE x a m p l e s
abbreviationsIBM/resd & type=abbr & funct=noun-p & gend=f & numb=sg