Treebanks

From the reviews: "Anne Abeille draws together a collection of fifteen short pieces focused primarily on the issues that come up in creating treebanks, demonstrated across an impressive variety of languages, along with six chapters on how treebanks are used. ... For computational linguists working on automatic parsing, a pass through this book should be required ... . The reader ... will be rewarded with a clear sense of the challenge and the promise of systematically applying theoretically motivated linguistic representations to 'language in the large'." (Philip Resnik, Language, Vol. 83 (4), 2007)

• 1 The Penn Treebank: An Overview.- 2 Thoughts on Two Decades of Drawing Trees.- 3 Bank of English and Beyond.- 4 Completing Parsed Corpora from Correction to Evolution.- 5 Syntactic Annotation of a German Newspaper Corpus.- 6 Annotation of Error Types for a German Newsgroup Corpus.- 7 The PDT: A 3-level Annotation Scenario.- 8 An HPSG-Annotated Test Suite for Polish.- 9 Developing a Spanish Treebank.- 10 Building a Treebank for French.- 11 Building the Italian Syntactic-Semantic Treebank.- 12 Automated Creation of a Medieval Portuguese Treebank.- 13 Sinica Treebank.- 14 Building a Japanese Parsed Corpus.- 15 Building a Turkish Treebank.- 16 Encoding Syntactic Annotation.- 17 Parser Evaluation.- 18 Dependency-based Evaluation of Minipar.- 19 Extracting Stochastic Grammars from Treebanks.- 20 Stochastic Lexicalized Tree Grammars.- 21 From Treebank Resources To LFG f-Structures.- Contributing Authors.