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Preliminary Recommendations

 

Application to Greek

Two types of articles are distinguished in Greek: definite and indefinite, each class including one member:

In the first version of the ILSP Morphological Lexicon and corresponding Tagset, these two were both coded under the grammatical category of article, further coded for the feature Type with the values definite and indefinite. At a later stage, however, this was abandoned and currently only the definite article is characterised as article. The indefinite article has been elevated to a category of its own, enas, due to its high ambiguity: besides indefinite article, it can also be a cardinal and an indefinite pronoun. The ambiguity, even with the use of the linguistic context, is extremely difficult to resolve automatically:

``Mono enas anthrwpos ytan ekei.'' -- card.
``Ton eidha mia mera.'' -- ind. art.
``Perase enas apo edhw kai se zytaghe.'' -- ind. pron.

The following tables present the values and tags of the attribute Type as used in the first version, in accordance to the EAGLES proposal.

Attribute Value Gr. example Gr. tag
Type definite o AtDf
indefinite enas (AtId)
current codif. : En

Articles are further coded for Gender, Number and Case.