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The classifying of words according to syntactic usage is basic to language handling; this paper describes an algorithm for automatically classifying words according to thirteen commonly used parts of speech: noun, adjective, verb, past verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction, pronoun, interjection, present participle, past participle, auxiliary verb, and plural or collective noun.

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In a recent paper by H. L. Resnikoff and J. L. Dolby, "The Nature of Affixing in Written English," an algorithm for the structural definition of affixes was developed and applied to data consisting of all the words of the form CVCVC in the Shorter Oxford Dictionary.

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This paper describes a systematic investigation of the extent to which the part of speech of words can be identified from their prefixes and suffixes. The results indicate that it is possible to determine, with 95 per cent accuracy, the inclusive part of speech of an affixed word from a consideration of its prefixes, suffixes, and length.

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