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tagger

Other forms: taggers

Definitions of tagger
  1. noun
    someone who assigns labels to the grammatical constituents of textual matter
  2. noun
    a computer program that attaches labels to the grammatical constituents of textual matter
    synonyms: tagging program
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    types:
    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
    type of:
    computer program, computer programme, program, programme
    (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute
  3. noun
    someone who appends or joins one thing to another
    “a theory that was simply added on by some anonymous tagger
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