boutta: P => V

[brendano]

Nathan noticed this today:

"boutta", short for "about to", is currently tagged as P in the 0.3 data release, but it should be V since it's like a modal auxiliary verb, similar to "ought to". In fact, the Brown clusters have figured this out, grouping "boutta" with "tryna", "gonna", and "finna" variants ("trying/going to", "going to", "fixing to"): http://www.ark.cs.cmu.edu/TweetNLP/paths/0011001.html

This might also be related to immediate future auxiliaries as mentioned in the NAACL paper (for "finna" and Texan English).

Current examples of the problem, just for "boutta":

~/twi/pos/ark-tweet-nlp/data/twpos-data-v0.3 % grep -ni boutta *.conll
oct27.conll:22611:boutta P
oct27.conll:26789:Boutta P

Some further inconsistencies. Here are examples of this cluster in the data. I haven't looked at them in context yet but highly doubt the P reading is correct.

daily547.conll:1422 Tryna V
daily547.conll:2499 tryna V
daily547.conll:3934 Bouta P
oct27.conll:1534 fiNna R
oct27.conll:3469 fina V
oct27.conll:3923 gon V
oct27.conll:6065 tryna V
oct27.conll:7890 tryna V
oct27.conll:8455 gne V
oct27.conll:11337 tryna V
oct27.conll:13993 gon V
oct27.conll:19302 finna P
oct27.conll:21114 gon V
oct27.conll:22610 boutta P
oct27.conll:24181 tryna V
oct27.conll:26788 Boutta P