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Noun: tagger  ta-gu(r)
  1. Someone who assigns labels to the grammatical constituents of textual matter
    "The linguistic tagger spent hours annotating the corpus for part-of-speech information"
     
  2. A computer program that attaches labels to the grammatical constituents of textual matter
    "Linguists used a tagger to analyse the parts of speech in the corpus";
    - tagging program
     
  3. Someone who appends or joins one thing to another
    "a theory that was simply added on by some anonymous tagger"

Derived forms: taggers

Type of: actor, computer program, computer programme [Brit], doer, program, programme [Brit, Cdn], worker

Encyclopedia: Tagger