This book provides a state of the art on work being done with parsed corpora. It gathers 21 papers on building and using parsed corpora raising many relevant questions, and deals with a variety of languages and a variety of corpora. It is for those working in linguistics, computational linguistics, natural language, syntax, and grammar.
| Preface | ||
| Introduction | ||
| Ch. 1 | The Penn Treebank: an overview | 5 |
| Ch. 2 | Thoughts on two decades of drawing trees | 23 |
| Ch. 3 | Bank of English and Beyond | 43 |
| Ch. 4 | Completing parsed corpora from correction to evolution | 61 |
| Ch. 5 | Syntactic Annotation of a German Newspaper Corpus | 73 |
| Ch. 6 | Annotation of error types for a German newsgroup corpus | 89 |
| Ch. 7 | The PDT: a 3-level annotation scenario | 103 |
| Ch. 8 | An HPSG-Annotated Test Suite for Polish | 129 |
| Ch. 9 | Developing a Spanish Treebank | 149 |
| Ch. 10 | Building a Treebank for French | 165 |
| Ch. 11 | Building the Italian Syntactic-Semantic Treebank | |
| Ch. 12 | Automated Creation of a Medieval Portuguese Treebank | 211 |
| Ch. 13 | Sinica Treebank | 231 |
| Ch. 14 | Building a Japanese Parsed Corpus | 249 |
| Ch. 15 | Building a Turkish Treebank | 261 |
| Ch. 16 | Encoding syntactic annotation | 281 |
| Ch. 17 | Parser Evaluation | 299 |
| Ch. 18 | Dependency-based Evaluation of Minipar | 317 |
| Ch. 19 | Extracting stochastic grammars from treebanks | 333 |
| Ch. 20 | Stochastic Lexicalized Tree Grammars | 351 |
| Ch. 21 | From Treebank Resources to LFG f-Structures | 367 |
| Contributing Authors | 391 | |
| Index | 398 |
Overview
This book provides a state of the art on work being done with parsed corpora. It gathers 21 papers on building and using parsed corpora raising many relevant questions, and deals with a variety of languages and a variety of corpora. It is for those working in linguistics, computational linguistics, natural language, syntax, and grammar.