Dear Memebers

We are very excited to share a new tool with the community. Multi-Feature Tagger of English (MFTE) is the Python version of the MFTE Perl (Le Foll 2021). This improved and extended Python version includes semantic tags from Biber (2006) and Biber et al. (1999), as well as additional tags, e.g., separate tags for third person singular male and female pronouns. This tagger first uses the Python NLP library stanza for grammatical part-of-speech tagging before applying rule-based regular expressions to tag for a range of more complex lexico-grammatical and semantic features typically used in multidimensional analysis (MDA; cf. Biber 1984; 1988).

The software is available as a free and opensource Python command line and simple GUI. Current version is a pre-alpha release with bugs and errors expected (& incomplete documentation). If you are interested in doing MDA studies, you may want to give it a try. Please feel free to report any errors or other glitches using the Issues tab on the Github repo. The software is available on the link below along with instructions how to install and use it.

https://github.com/mshakirDr/MFTE

Regards