Incorrect POS tags for "38.5%"

[timothywangdev]

Please check the parsing results of
"There were 769 households out of which 38.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them."

(PartOfSpeechLink (stv 1.000000 1.000000)
(WordInstanceNode "38.5@b13e52c0-9f9c-4305-a0be-bb306249009e")
(DefinedLinguisticConceptNode "det")
)

(PartOfSpeechLink (stv 1.000000 1.000000)
(WordInstanceNode "%@2f68f0db-bfbb-4285-88ef-c3f53bb053a7")
(DefinedLinguisticConceptNode "noun")
)

I don't think that these two words are correctly tagged.

[linas]

I think "noun" is correct.
% is taken to be the same as the word "percent", which would be a noun

and 38.5 is a modifier of % (how many percent is it? Its 38.5)

You could has said 38.5 miles or 38.5 days ... etc

The 38.5 is a "numeric determiner" -- relex should be creating a _quantity for this; it should be _quantity(%, 38.5)

Note in link-grammar Dmcn and ND are more or less the same thing.

[timothywangdev]

Thanks for the explanation!

[linas]

re-opened, the first one is still wrong, it should be (DefinedLinguisticConceptNode "quantity") and not (DefinedLinguisticConceptNode "det")