Tagger always tags “there” as existential

[dhowe]

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For some reason, no matter how I use the word “there”, it always thinks it is existential.  For example:

”I have gone alone in there.”  or “We stopped and went on from there.”

RiTa.pos() will tag “there” as ex.  But in these cases, “there” is being used as a noun. Specifically it is a noun, the object of the preposition “in/from”.  Is this a bug, or am I misunderstanding it?

[dhowe]

this may be resolved by simply adding 'nn' as a 2nd tag for 'there' in the lexicon, give it a try...

[Real-John-Cheung]

hmm

adding 'nn' as a 2nd tag for 'there' in the lexicon

that doesn't work...
I think actually 'there' should be tagged as 'rb' most frequently? like

• "She lives there"
• "I was standing there"

and only is existential in cases like

• "There is a river" (i.e. there + be)

So maybe we should adjust the order of the possible tags. I did this in the above PR

[dhowe]

@Real-John-Cheung need to sync with java