treebank

plural treebanks · alternative tree bank

1. computationalA database (corpus) of sentences which are annotated with syntactic information, often in the form of a tree.

   If one wants to use a treebank for linguistic investigation, […].

   2003, Diana Santos, “Timber! Issues in treebank building and use”, in Nuno J. Mamede, Jorge Baptista, Isabel Trancoso, Maria das Gracas Volpe Nunes, editors, Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, page 152

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   A treebank is a text corpus with exhaustive syntactic annotation, typically applied on top of lemmatization, PoS tagging and morphological annotation.

   2020, “Introduction”, in Hanne Martine Eckhoff, Silvia Luraghi, Marco Passarotti, editors, Diachronic Treebanks for Historical Linguistics, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 2

   Futrell et al. (2015b) also did some probabilistic grammar modeling, such that they pick the most likely order of a head and its dependents, in the rules that are given by the parses in the treebank for a language.

   2025, Edward A. F. Gibson, “Dependency Length Minimization as a Constraint on Grammars” (chapter 5), in Syntax: A Cognitive Approach, MIT Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 139

present singular third person treebanks · participle present treebanking · participle past treebanked · past treebanked · alternative tree bank

1. computationalTo parse and annotate sentences according to a treebank.