NameType: type of named entity
Classification of named entities (token-based, no nesting of entities etc.)
The feature applies mainly to the PROPN tag;
in multi-word foreign names, adjectives may also have this feature
(they preserve the ADJ tag but at the same time they would not exist in Russian
otherwise than in the named entity).
Conversion from the Prague Dependency Treebank
Lemmas in PDT contain features
that also encode types of named entities. When converting the PDT annotation
to UD, these lemma features are removed and the feature
NameType is added to the universal features to preserve the type.
The following table lists the name types together with the most frequent examples. See http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/techrep/tr27.pdf, page 8, section 2.1 (Lemma structure) for more details.
| _;Y | given name | Jan, Jiří, Václav, Petr, Josef | “Jan, Jiří, Václav, Petr, Josef” |
| _;S | surname | Klaus, Havel, Němec, Jelcin, Svoboda | “Klaus, Havel, Němec, Yeltsin, Svoboda” |
| _;E | member of a particular nation, inhabitant of a particular territory | Němec, Čech, Srb, Američan, Slovák | “German, Czech, Serbian, American, Slovak” |
| _;G | geographical name | Praha, ČR, Evropa, Německo, Brno | “Prague, CR, Europe, Germany, Brno” |
| _;K | company, organization, institution | ODS, OSN, Sparta, ODA, Slavia | “ODS, UN, Sparta, ODA, Slavia” |
| _;R | product | LN, Mercedes, Tatra, PC, MF | “LN, Mercedes, Tatra, PC, MF” |
| _;m | other proper name: names of mines, stadiums, guerilla bases etc. | US, PVP, Prix, Rapaport, Tour | “US, PVP, Prix, Rapaport, Tour” |
Geo: geographical name
Names of cities, countries, rivers, mountains etc.
Examples
- Praha “Prague”, Kostelec nad Černými lesy, Německo “Germany”
Prs: name of person
This value is used if it is not known whether it is a given or a family name, but it is known that it is a personal name.
Giv: given name of person
Given name (not family name). This is usually the first name in European and American names. In Chinese names, the last two syllables (of three) are usually the given name.
Examples
- Jan, Jiří, Václav
Sur: surname / family name of person
Family name (surname). This is usually the last name in European and American names. In Chinese names, the first syllable (of three) is usually the surname.
Examples
- Klaus, Havel, Němec
Nat: nationality
Name denoting a member of a particular nation, or inhabitant of a particular territory. This does not include derived adjectives, nor nouns denoting languages (both groups are written in lowercase). Thus Čech “Czech [man]” belongs here but český “Czech” and čeština “Czech [language]” do not.
Examples
- Čech “Czech”, Němec “German”, Pražan “Praguer”
Com: company, organization
Pro: product
Oth: other
Names of stadiums, guerilla bases, events etc.