Automatic F-Structure Annotation from the AP Treebank
Louisa Sadler, Josef van Genabith, Andy Way · Dublin City University Open Access Institutional Repository (Dublin City University) · 2000
We present a method for automatically annotating treebank resources with functional structures. The method defines systematic patterns of correspondence between partial PS configurations and functional structures. These are applied to PS rules extracted from treebanks. The set of techniques which we have developed constitute a methodology for corpus-guided grammar development. Despite the widespread belief that treebank representations are not very useful in grammar development, we show that systematic patterns of c-structure to f-structure correspondence can be simply and successfully stated over such rules. The method is partial in that it requires manual correction of the annotated grammar rules. 1 Introduction The present paper discusses a method for the automatic annotation of treebanks with functional structures. A companion paper (Frank 2000) presents an alternative method for the automatic annotation of corpus resources. These closely related, but interestingly differ...