Dependency-based PropBanking of clinical Finnish

  • Authors:
  • Katri Haverinen;Filip Ginter;Timo Viljanen;Veronika Laippala;Tapio Salakoski

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Turku, Finland;University of Turku, Finland;University of Turku, Finland;University of Turku, Finland;University of Turku, Finland

  • Venue:
  • LAW IV '10 Proceedings of the Fourth Linguistic Annotation Workshop
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a PropBank of clinical Finnish, an annotated corpus of verbal propositions and arguments. The clinical PropBank is created on top of a previously existing dependency treebank annotated in the Stanford Dependency (SD) scheme and covers 90% of all verb occurrences in the treebank. We establish that the PropBank scheme is applicable to clinical Finnish as well as compatible with the SD scheme, with an overwhelming proportion of arguments being governed by the verb. This allows argument candidates to be restricted to direct verb dependents, substantially simplifying the PropBank construction. The clinical Finnish PropBank is freely available at the address http://bionlp.utu.fi.