A [[non-standard word]] can belong to more than one [[semiotic class]] and each semiotic class may have different preferred realizations.
For example, the sequence "1755" can be:
- a year: The Lisbon earthquake of 1755 (seventeen fifty-five)
- part of a phone number: 12 345 1755 (one, seven, five, five)
- a money amount: € 1755 (seventeen hundred and fifty-five euros)
- a measurement: 1755 km (one thousand, seven hundred and fifty-five kilometers)
The classification of non-standard words may involve other natural language processing techniques, such as named entity recognition, to identify individuals, countries, cities, street names, and other proper names.
For example:
- King Charles III (third)
- XXI century (twenty-first)
- Chapter XXI (twenty-one)