treebank
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.35|right|Most syntactic treebanks annotate variants of either Phrase structure grammar|phrase structure (left) or dependency structure (right).
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Construction
- Applications
- Semantic treebanks
- Syntactic treebanks
- Search tools
- See also
- References
thumb|upright=1.35|right|Most syntactic treebanks annotate variants of either Phrase structure grammar|phrase structure (left) or dependency structure (right).
In linguistics, a treebank is a parsed text corpus that annotates syntactic or semantic sentence structure. The construction of parsed corpora in the early 1990s revolutionized computational linguistics, which benefitted from large-scale empirical data.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “treebank” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.