New NE types: ideology and sport? about amr-guidelines

[uhermjakob]

Sports

We discussed this at the AMR workshop today and decided that sports such as soccer or tai chi are common nouns (as opposed to named entities). Personally, I would prefer not to decompose tai chi but rather render it as tai-chi.

Ideology

Personally, I would treat Zionism, Marxism etc. as common nouns as well, in line with communism and liberalism. I think Marxism is only capitalized because it is derived from the named entity Marx.

In the specific example you mention above, Zionist actually just means Israeli, a term avoided by groups such as Hamas and its Al-Qassam Brigades mentioned earlier in the sentence that you quote from. They never use the term Israel and its derivatives because they deny Israel's right to exist.

[mgeorgescu]

We'll then stick to annotating them as common nouns.