Treebanks Building and Using Parsed Corpora
Linguists and engineers in Natural Language Processing tend to use electronic corpora more and more. Most research has long been limited to raw (unannotated) texts or to tagged texts (annotated with parts of speech only), but these approaches suffer from
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Series Editors Nancy Ide, Vassar College, New York Jean Veronis, Universite de Provence and CNRS, France Editorial Board Harald Baayen, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands Kenneth W. Church, AT & T Bell Labs, New Jersey, USA Judith Klavans, Columbia University, New York, USA David T. Barnard, University of Regina, Canada Dan Tufis, Romanian Academy of Sciences, Romania Joaquim Llisterri, Universität Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Stig Johansson, University of Oslo, Norway Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, France
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Treebanks Building and Using Parsed Corpora Edited by Anne Abeille Universite Paris 7, Paris, France
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ISBN 978-1-4020-1335-5 ISBN 978-94-010-0201-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-010-0201-1
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Contents
Preface
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Introduction Anne Ab eilie I Bu ild ing Treebanks 2 Using treebanks Part I
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Building treebanks
E NGLISH TREEBANKS Chapter I TH E P ENN TR EEBANK: AN OVERVIEW Ann Taylor, Mitchell Marcus, Beatrice Santorini I The annotation schemes 2 Methodology 3 Conclusion s
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Chapter 2 THOUGHTS ON TWO DECADES OF DRAWING TREES Geoffrey Sampson I Historical background 2 Building treeb ank s 3 Exploiting the S USANNE Treebank 4 Small is beautiful 5 Annotating a spoke n corpus 6 Using the CHRISTl NE Corpus 7 Conclusion
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Chapter 3
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BA NK OF ENGLISH AND BEYO ND Timo Jiirvinen I Introduction 2 Annotating 200 million words 3 ENGCG Syntax 4 FDG parser 5 Conclusion
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TREEBANKS
Chapter 4 COMPLETING PARSED CORPORA FROM CORRECTION TO EYOLUTION
Sean Wallis I Introduction 2 Conventional post-correction 3 A paradigm shift: transverse correction 4 Critique
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GERMAN TREEBANKS
Chapter 5 SYNTACTIC ANNOTATION OF A GERMAN NEWSPAPER CORPUS
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Thorsten Brants, Wojeieeh Skut, Hans Uszkoreit I Introduction 2 Treebank development 3 Corpus annotation 4 Applications 5 Conclusions Appendix: Tagsets
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Chapter 6 ANNOTATION OF ERROR TYPES FOR A GERMAN NEWSGROUP CORPUS
Markus Beeker, Andrew Bredenkamp, Berthold Crysmann, Juditn Klein I Introduction 2 Corpus Description 3 Annotation Strategy 4 Annotation Tools 5 Evaluation 6 First Results 7 Conclusion
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