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TAGGER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A computer program that attaches labels to the grammatical constituents of textual matter

Synonyms:

tagger; tagging program

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("tagger" is a kind of...):

computer program; computer programme; program; programme ((computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tagger"):

sense tagger (a tagging program whose labels indicate the meanings of words or expressions)

part-of-speech tagger; pos tagger (a tagging program whose labels indicate a word's part of speech)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who appends or joins one thing to another

Example:

a theory that was simply added on by some anonymous tagger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("tagger" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Someone who assigns labels to the grammatical constituents of textual matter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("tagger" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

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