pos

comparative more pos · superlative most pos

1. UKabbreviationclippingslangClipping of positive.

   I'm not absolutely pos on that, sir.

2. alternativeAlternative spelling of poz (“HIV positive”).
3. abbreviationclippingClipping of possessive.

1. pluralplural of po

plural POSes · plural POSs

1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablelawInitialism of proof of service.
2. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablemedicineInitialism of peripheral oxygen saturation.
3. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablehuman sciencesInitialism of part of speech.

   To include part-of-speech (POS) information, the corpus was tagged using the CLAWS tagger.

   2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 109

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   Eight POSs are defined in traditional English grammar: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.

   2009, Mirjam Sepesy Maučec, Zdravko Kačič, “Statistical Modelling of Highly Inflective Languages”, in Juan Ramón Rabuñal Dopico, Julián Dorado de la Calle, Alejandro Pazos Sierra, editors, Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, volume III (Mu–Z), Hershey, Pa.: Information Science Reference, →ISBN, page 1468, column 1

4. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablebusinessInitialism of point of sale or point of service.
5. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablecomputingInitialism of proprietary operating system.
6. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablenavigationaeronauticsInitialism of position and orientation system.
7. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablevulgarInitialism of piece of shit.

   Everything you lost was because you are a P.O.S,^([sic]) […]

   2011, Sarreta “Whispers” Lopez, “I Have Recognized My Worth”, in I Have Arrived, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 69

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   Unlimited technology from the whole universe, and we cruise 'round in a Ford P.O.S.

   1997, Ed Solomon, Men in Black, spoken by Agent J (Will Smith)

   I told him he is a POS for saying that to me (what a terrible thing to say to my husband! I am just as guilty sometimes for saying hurtful things), and how dare he try and hurt me in such a cruel way, telling me he hates me and wishing he could tell me he was unfaithful!

   2014, Harmony Rose, Married Under the Influence: A True Story, Bloomington, IN: Archway Publishing, →ISBN, page 78

   And you act in ways that make it right (i.e., voice says you’re a P.O.S., which makes you want the drugs, which makes you act selfishly, which gives you reason to feel like a P.O.S., which makes you want the drugs), because you don’t know what kind of person you’d be if you weren’t listening to this squawk, and you don’t know what else to do.

   2015, Kenton Bartlett, “Change”, in The World Needs You (A Pep Talk), C.E. Press, →ISBN, page 387

   There have been many times I’ve had to keep my mouth shut due to fear of something like this happening. I have been called a ‘hateful racist POS [piece of shit].’

   2019 February 17, Kathrine Jebsen Moore, quoting Maria Tusken, “A Witch-hunt on Instagram”, in Claire Lehmann, editor, Quillette, Sydney, N.S.W., archived from the original on 02 Mar 2019

8. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of Parinaud's oculoglandular syndrome.

1. InternetabbreviationinitialismInitialism of parent over shoulder (i.e. observing the young user's conversation).

   Hang on, POS ... can you tell me about it later?

1. pluralplural of PO

plural PoSes · plural PoSs

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of part of speech.

   Consequently, a good PoS tagger should be able to reach a degree of precision which goes beyond the superficial level of Noun/Verb/Adjective/Adverb/Grammar words.

   2011, Samuel Cruz-Lara, Tarik Osswald, Jordan Guinaud, Nadia Bellalem, Lotfi Bellalem, Jean-Pierre Camal, “A Chat Interface Using Standards for Communication and e-Learning in Virtual Worlds”, in Joaquim Filipe, José Cordeiro, editors, Enterprise Information Systems […] (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; 73), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, →ISBN, →ISSN, part V (Human-Computer Interaction), page 544

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   It should be noted that there is not always a perfect match between the logically possible systems displayed above and the PoS systems actually encountered in the sample languages. As the data in the next sub-section will show, languages may display an additional PoS class from a ‘neighboring’ system (i.e. the one represented above or below it), or they may display additional closed or derived classes of rigid lexemes.

   2010, Kees Hengeveld, Eva van Lier, “Parts of speech and dependent clauses in Functional Discourse Grammar”, in Umberto Ansaldo, Jan Don, Roland Pfau, editors, Parts of Speech: Empirical and Theoretical Advances (Benjamins Current Topics, →ISSN; volume 25), John Benjamins B.V., →ISBN, page 265

   In a second step, each word is automatically attributed a certain part-of-speech category, such as noun, verb and alike, which is best illustrated by an example given in Fig. 4.1. […] A LCCRF can be used to predict a certain label sequence (the PoS tags) y* = {y₁, y₂,…,y_L} given a certain input word sequence w = {w₁, w₂,…,w_L} that maximizes the conditional probability p(y|w).

   2012, Korbinian Riedhammer, “Key Phrase Extraction and Ranking”, in Interactive Approaches to Video Lecture Assessment (Studien zur Mustererkennung; volume 36), Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH, →ISBN, →ISSN, section 2 (Preprocessing), subsection 2 (Part-of-Speech Tagging), page 61

   The PoS tag of the word ‘live’ leads to drastic differences in its pronunciation (/liv/ when used as a verb and /lahyv/ when used as an adverb or adjective). The PoS tagger can be a simple rule-based system Brill (1992), a data-driven technique (Brants 2000) or a hybrid approach. There are also a few standard corpora that contain word-PoS pairs.

   2012, Nitendra Rajput, Amit Anil Nanavati, Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments (Wiley Series on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing), Wiley, →ISBN

   In PoS tagging, the sentences in the data set collection are tokenized using the PoS tagger. During this process, a part of speech such as noun, verb, adverb, adjective, conjunctions, negations and the like are assigned to every word in the sentences.

   2017, A. Sheik Abdullah, S. Selvakumar, A. M. Abirami, “An Introduction to Data Analytics: Its Types and Its Applications”, in Shrawan Kumar Trivedi, Shubhamoy Dey, Anil Kumar, Tapan Kumar Panda, editors, Handbook of Research on Advanced Data Mining Techniques and Applications for Business Intelligence (Advances in Business Information Systems and Analytics, →ISSN), IGI Global, →ISBN, section 1 (Business Intelligence With Data Mining: Process and Applications), page 5

   Much less is still known about relationships between different parts of speech (PoSs) along the developmental course and their role in the acquisition of discourse skills. […] The acquisition of PoSs means “…knowing how to use the word in the language.[…]”

   2020 September 15, Ingrida Balčiūnienė, Aleksandr N. Kornev, “Quantitative Analysis of Language Competence vs. Performance in Russian- and Lithuanian-Speaking 6 Year-Olds^([sic])”, in Andrius Utka, Jurgita Vaičenonienė, Jolanta Kovalevskaitė, Danguolė Kalinauskaitė, editors, Human Language Technologies – The Baltic Perspective […] (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications; 328), Amsterdam: IOS Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 225

2. abbreviationinitialismbusinessInitialism of proof of stake.