Parallel Multi-Theory Annotations of Syntactic Structure
Jerid Francom, Mans Hulden · 2008
We present an approach to creating a treebank of sentences using multiple notations or linguistic theories simultaneously.We illustrate the method by annotating sentences from the Penn Treebank II in three different theories in parallel: the original PTB notation, a Functional Dependency Grammar notation, and a Government and Binding style notation.Sentences annotated with all of these theories are represented in XML as a directed acyclic graph where nodes and edges may carry extra information depending on the theory encoded.