Translating treebank annotation for evaluation

  • Authors:
  • Stephen Watkinson;Suresh Manandhar

  • Affiliations:
  • University of York, York, UK;University of York, York, UK

  • Venue:
  • ELDS '01 Proceedings of the workshop on Evaluation for Language and Dialogue Systems - Volume 9
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

In this paper we discuss the need for corpora with a variety of annotations to provide suitable resources to evaluate different Natural Language Processing systems and to compare them. A supervised machine learning technique is presented for translating corpora between syntactic formalisms and is applied to the task of translating the Penn Treebank annotation into a Categorial Grammar annotation. It is compared with a current alternative approach and results indicate annotation of broader coverage using a more compact grammar.