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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
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Cardinal number as Adjective ?

0When I say (with its equivalent part of speech according to PS. Penn Treebank tags 01a05000... 02a00 ) 02br
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00convert/VB binary/JJ 111/CD to/TO decimal/JJ system/NN 02br
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00my specific interest is on that binary/JJ 111/CD , "binary" is the 02br
00 adjective of the number "111" and it modifies the number. 02br
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00In English, almost every noun can act as adjective which is called 02br
00 adjectival noun , it's always located to the left of the noun that it 02br
00 modifies called the head, such as "water tank", "dog house", "computer 02br
00 program", those words water, dog, computer are adjectival noun 02br
00 respectively. 02br
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00so how about this, 02br
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00convert/VB 2/CD kilometers/NN to/TO meter/NN 02br
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00"2" is a cardinal number and is also a noun, "2" will modifies 02br
00 "kilometers", do we look at "2" as the adjective of kilometer ? or how 02br
00 do you look at it ? Thank you. 02br
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00Regards, 02br
00 William Kisman 02br
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0Hi,02br
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00In the phrase, 'two kilometers', I simply see 'two' as an adjective.02br
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00Does your dictionary definition not indicate this?02br
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00Best wishes, Clive. 0-
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0May I know what kind of dictionary you are using that can see the meaning of phrae "two kilometers" ?02br
00I am doing Natural Language Processing, I want to know exactly whether I should treat the 2 as adjective or what for computer processing. Now I got it. 02br
00Thanks. 0-
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0Hi,02br
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00Any dictionary should give this meaning.02br
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00eg 01a05000 02a00 offers the example of "he received two messages".02br
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00Best wishes, Clive0240hrefhttp://www.thefreedictionary.com/two

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