Improve USAS taxonomy description (#202)

clarin-eric · Oct 26, 2023 · 301752b · 301752b
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diff --git a/Corpora/Taxonomies/ParlaMint-taxonomy-USAS.ana.xml b/Corpora/Taxonomies/ParlaMint-taxonomy-USAS.ana.xml
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 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <taxonomy xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="ParlaMint-taxonomy-USAS.ana" xml:lang="en">
-  <desc xml:lang="en"><term>USAS categories</term>: Semantic categories following the USAS Semantic tagset, cf. 
-  <ref target="https://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/usas/">https://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/usas/</ref>. The taxonomy was derived from
-  <ref target="https://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/usas/semtags_subcategories.txt">https://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/usas/semtags_subcategories.txt</ref>
-  adding + and - modifiers where necessary. Other modifiers, in particular [mfnci%@] are not retained.</desc> 
+  <desc xml:lang="en"><term>USAS categories</term>: Semantic categories following the USAS Semantic tagset, cf.
+  <ref target="https://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/usas/">https://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/usas/</ref>.
+  The taxonomy was derived from
+  <ref target="https://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/usas/semtags_subcategories.txt">https://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/usas/semtags_subcategories.txt</ref>.
+  A category can contain up to one positive (USAS = '+', taxonomy = 'p') or negative (USAS = '-', taxonomy = 'n') modifier.
+  Other USAS modifiers (i.e. regex [mfnci%@]) are not retained.
+  </desc>
   <category xml:id="A1">
     <catDesc><term>A1</term>: General And Abstract Terms</catDesc>
     <category xml:id="A1.1.1">