The LinGO Redwoods Treebank: Motivation and Preliminary Applications

The LinGO Redwoods initiative is a seed activity in the design and development of a new type of treebank. While several medium- to large-scale treebanks exist for English (and for other major languages), pre-existing publicly available resources exhibit the following limitations: (i) annotation is mono-stratal, either encoding topological (phrase structure) or tectogrammatical (dependency) information, (ii) the depth of linguistic information recorded is comparatively shallow, (iii) the design and format of linguistic representation in the treebank hard-wires a small, predefined range of ways in which information can be extracted from the treebank, and (iv) representations in existing treebanks are static and over the (often year- or decade-long) evolution of a large-scale treebank tend to fall behind the development of the field. LinGO Redwoods aims at the development of a novel treebanking methodology, rich in nature and dynamic both in the ways linguistic data can be retrieved from...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2002
• Where: COLING
• Authors: Stephan Oepen, Kristina Toutanova, Stuart M. Shieber, Christopher D. Manning, Dan Flickinger, Thorsten Brants
• Keywords: COLING 2002, COLING 2008, Large-scale Treebank, LinGO Redwoods, Treebank