Notes: 1) Each line has the format: FREQ, TAG, MEANING 2) Questions may be tagged for ENTITY-TYPE and/or ANSWER COMPOSITION 3) If you want to get your hands on the tagged questions, see: ~/gerber/WebCloPedia/DATA/*annotated.alpha ================================== ENTITY-TYPE TAGS (based on CONTEXT) ================================== **************************** **NAME/PROPER-NAMED-ENTITY** **************************** 2930, NAME, The proper name of a person fictional character or animal. 3, LAST-NAME, A proper family name 2, FEMALE-FIRST-NAME, A proper first name 1, PROPER-NAME, The proper name of something other than a person planet geographical location such as a ship. 6, SPIRITUAL-BEING, The proper name of a diety or or other spiritual being 515, TITLED-WORK, play TV show book copyrighted game etc. *********************** **PROPER-ORGANIZATION** *********************** 188, COMPANY-NAME, The proper name of a business entity 94, GROUP-OF-PEOPLE, Looser than an organization. A GROUP-OF-PEOPLE may be referred to collectively (christians the Buffalo Bills) but will not behave or be referred to as a single entity or location (*Christians announced/Congress announced; *At the Buffalo Bills/In congress). 65, ORGANIZATION, The name of an entity that is unified and may have quotes or decisions attributed to it. May also be referred to as a place. **************** **PROPER-PLACE** **************** 51, PROPER-PLACE, The proper name of a geographic location type not covered by the more specific types. 444, COUNTRY, The proper name of a nation 326 CITY, The proper name of a city 181 STATE-DISTRICT, name of a state province or other political subdivision 4, CITY-DIVISION, The proper name of a ward or other subdivision of a city. 9, GEOLOGICAL-FORMATION, The proper-name of a geological formation (including plantets) 60, PLACE, May be a proper or other place name - not as clear from the question "What was the New Jersey Turnpike built to connect?" 24, CONTINENT, Proper name of a continent on earth 21, PLANET, The proper name of a planet in this solar system 18, ISLAND, The proper name of an island 10, RIVER-NAME, The proper-name of a river 8, LAKE, The proper name of a lake 5, OCEAN, The proper name of a sea or ocean on earth 2, MOON, The name of an orbiting space body 1, CANYON, The proper name of a canyon ********** **PERSON** ********** 19, OCCUPATION-PERSON, The name of an occupation or the person who does it "secretary" "carpenter" ... 13, GEOGRAPHICAL-PERSON, The word referring to people from a geographical region "Japanese" "Buckeye". Sometimes pejorative. 4, STATUS-PERSON, A rank or role associated with status without any implication of occupation or responsibility "Duchess". 3, PERSON, The descriptive name for a person based on something otherthan geographical origin or occupation. For example group affiliation or beliefs "Quaker" "Muslim" "abolitionist". ************ **QUANTITY** ************ 1080, NUMERICAL-QUANTITY, Quantity/Count of items that are not covered by more specific quantity types. 226, TEMPORAL-QUANTITY, Age or duration. "29 years old" "for 3 hours" 110, DISTANCE-QUANTITY, Quantity expressed by any distance units including height width distance in miles etc. 92, MONETARY-QUANTITY, Quantity accompanied by a currency 57, QUANTITY, Quantities that may not be numerical 29, MASS-QUANTITY, Quantity involving weight 28, VOLUME-QUANTITY, Quantity of 3-dimensional space liquid etc. 22, VELOCITY-QUANTITY, MPH or other rate-of-travel 13, SPATIAL-QUANTITY, Quantity of space (super-class of volume, area, and distance) 10, PERCENTAGE, A quantity expressed as a percentage 9, AREA-QUANTITY, Quantity of 2-dimensional space 8, TEMPERATURE-QUANTITY, Quantity plus some thermal scale. 4, ENERGY-QUANTITY, A quantified expression of potential "How much power does a lightning bolt have?" 1, ILLUMINATION-QUANTITY, A quantified expression of ligh 1, FREQUENCY-QUANTITY, A quantified expression of wave frequency ********************** **OTHER ENTITY TYPES** ********************** 273, TEXT, A phrase or portion of a text 150, COLOR, The name of a color 138, ANIMAL, The name of an animal (including birds reptiles fish and insects.) 121, THING, The name of an entity not covered by the more specific types. 117, DATE, A point in time. 71, SUBSTANCE, Name of a physical substance/material - probably a mass noun. 55, HUMAN-FOOD, Any food 54, ADDRESS, A pointer to a location in physical telephonic or cyber space (postal address telephone number URL) 36, LETTER-CHARACTER, A text characer or symbol. 35, BODY-PART, The name of some part of anatomy 31, WAR, The name of an armed conflict 24, DISEASE, Name of a disease disorder syndrome, etc. 23, PLANT, Name of a plant 22, LANGUAGE, The name of a natural or artificial language 19, DAY-OF-THE-WEEK, Proper name of a day of the week 18, SPORT, The name of a sport 17, LIQUID, Any liquid substance often a beverage 9, TANGIBLE-OBJECT, The name of a physical thing - typically an artifact "chain" "building" 9, ROUTE, The proper name of a road/highway/canal 9, CARDINAL, A cardinal number - non quantifying 8, VEHICLE, The name of a transportation device 8, SOLID-SUBSTANCE, The name of a composite raw material "wood" "diamond" 8, DOCUMENT, The name of a document (e.g. U.S. Constitution) 7, DIRECTION-OF-THE-COMPASS, The name of a cardinal direction 6, GARMENT, The name of an article of clothing 5, ADJECTIVE, A word that would be categorized as a property 4, TEMPORAL-INTERVAL, The name of a time period "1999" or span "from 1993 to 1999" 12, SYN, The answer will be a synonym or AKA for the question point. 4, MONTH-OF-THE-YEAR, The proper name of a month 3, WEAPON, The name of a weapon 3, RATING, Either a synthesized narrative assessment "How is Paraguay for vacations?" or some scalar rating if available "How bad was hurricaine Mitch?" 3, PROCESS, The name of a process or activity 3, INSTRUMENT, The name of some (mechanical) device 2, CURRENCY-UNIT, The name of legal tender 1, PRENAME-TITLE, The prefixal words used to indicate status or role 1, MUSICAL-INSTRUMENT, The name of an instrument 1, INFORMATION-UNIT, The name of a measure of data kilobyte terabyte, etc. 1, DISTANCE-UNIT, The name of a unit of linear distance ======================== ANSWER COMPOSITION TAGS ======================== ***************** **ANSWER FORMAT** ***************** => If more than one entity name is required, how many need be in the answer? 314, LIST-N, The answer will consiste of a list of N entities. N is indicated within the question. 241, LIST-EX, The answer will consiste of an unspecified number of examples of the type of entity requested. 169, LIST-ALL, The answer will consist of a list of all members of the set defined in the question. 68, LIST-MAX, The answer will consist of a list of entities which represent the extreme by some measure. => If answer is not an entity type, what should it be? 738, INFO, Sythesized narrative answer. General information about X for "what is X" type questions. 245, DEF, Synthesized narrative answer. Definition of X responding to "what is X" 217, WHY-FAMOUS, Synthesized narrative answer to "Who is ..."; "What is the claim to fame of ...". 725, METHOD-MEANS, Synthesized narrative answer to. "How can I ..." 200, CIRCUMSTANCE-MEANS, Synthesized narrative answer to. "How does X happen?" or sometimes "Why ..." 158, CONTRAST, Synthesized narrative answer to "What is the difference between..." 29, USE, Synthesized narrative responding to "What is X (used) for?" 8, PROCON, Synthesized narrative answer on the pros and cons of something "What are the benefits of X" 7, EXPRESSION-ORIGIN, Synthesized narrative answer to a question like "where did the expression X come from?" "What does the name Victor mean?" 4, REASON, Synthesized narrative answer to the question "Why ...?" ******************* **QUESTION FORMAT** ******************* 77, MULTIPLE-CHOICE, The answer is contained in the question. The answers may be tagged as a. b. ...; or presented as bare coordinates "Is Bill Clinton a righty or a lefty?" 309, Y:N, The answer will be yes or no. 15, T:F, The question explicitly asks for a true/false answer