PROPN: proper noun
Definition
A proper noun is a noun (or nominal content word, or substantive) that is the name (or part of the name) of a specific individual, place, or object. Syntactically a proper noun cannot be preceded by numerals and classifiers but a common noun can. For institutional names that have clear internal structure and contain regular words belonging to other parts of speech such as nouns (e.g., 公司 / gōngsī “company”, 大學 / dàxué “university”, etc.), those words should be segmented as their own tokens and still tagged their native part of speech; only the proper nouns in such complex names should be tagged PROPN.
Examples
- 孔子 / kǒngzǐ “Confucius”
- 亞洲 / yàzhōu “Asia”
- 威威 木材 公司 ／ wēiwēi mùcái gōngsī “Weiwei Timber Company”
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