23.5334, FYI: New Release of the T=?UTF-8?Q?=C3=BCBa-D/Z_?=German Treebank

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Subject: 23.5334, FYI: New Release of the TüBa-D/Z German Treebank

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Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 13:06:18
From: Kathrin Beck [kathrin.beck at uni-tuebingen.de]
Subject: New Release of the TüBa-D/Z German Treebank

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The Department of Linguistics of the University of Tuebingen (Germany) is
happy to announce the new release of a referentially and syntactically
annotated German corpus:

* The Tuebingen Treebank of Written German (TüBa-D/Z) - 8th release 

The TueBa-D/Z treebank is a manually annotated German newspaper corpus based
on data taken from the daily issues of the 'die tageszeitung'. It currently
comprises approximately 75,000 sentences (ca. 1,300,000 words).

The syntactic annotation scheme of the TueBa-D/Z distinguishes four levels of
syntactic constituency: the lexical level, the phrasal level, the level of
topological fields, and the clausal level.

The treebank (about 3,200 newspaper articles) has been enriched with anaphoric
and coreference relations referring to nominal and pronominal antecedents.
Linking relations include: coreferential (two NPs refer to the same
extralinguistic referent), anaphoric/cataphoric (a definite pronoun
refers to a contextual antecedent) and other relations (split-antecedent,
instance) as well as marking of expletive pronouns.

For selected discourse connectives, the instances occurring in the treebank
have been annotated with the discourse relation(s) conveyed by the connective
instance. Portions of the treebank have been sense-annotated for the
connectives 'nachdem' (298 instances), 'während' (531 instances), 'sobald' (28
instances), 'seitdem' (13 instances), 'als' (169 instances), 'aber' (161
instances), and 'bevor' (119 instances).
Another annotation layer contains structural information as well as implicit
discourse relations for a subcorpus of 41 annotated  newspaper articles
(21,817 tokens) with 1,458 (explicit and implicit) discourse relations.

The annotation comprises information on 
 * inflectional morphology
 * lemmas 
 * syntactic constituency 
 * grammatical functions 
 * (complex) named entities incl. semantic classification 
 * anaphora and coreference relations 
 * dependency relations (automatically created)
 * chunk annotation (automatically created) 

The treebank is available in 5 different formats: 
* NEGRA export format 
* XML format (TigerXML and exportXML)
* Penn Treebank format
* CoNLL format

The license for TueBa-D/Z is granted free of charge for scientific use. 
For more information, please refer to: 

http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/en/ascl/resources/corpora/tuebadz.html

With best regards, 

Erhard W. Hinrichs
Kathrin Beck
Heike Telljohann
Yannick Versley

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Kathrin Beck

Project Coordinator D-SPIN & CLARIN-D
Dept. of Computational Linguistics
University of Tübingen
Wilhelmstr. 19/ 2.31
72074 Tübingen
Germany

Tel.: +49-7071-29-73970
Fax:  +49-7071-29-5214
E-Mail: kbeck at sfs.uni-tuebingen.de,
kathrin.beck at uni-tuebingen.de
 



Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Morphology
                     Syntax
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics





 






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