Exploiting Parsed Corpora: Applications in Research, Pedagogy, and Processing

Prashant Pardeshi,Kei Yoshimoto,Alistair Butler,Stephen Horn,Iku Nagasaki

doi:10.33011/lilt.v18i.1427

Abstract

The articles in this special issue are based on presentations made at the international symposium entitled Exploiting Parsed Corpora: Applications in Research, Pedagogy, and Processing held at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL) on Dec. 9-10, 2017 and organized by the collaborative research project at NINJAL entitled 'Development of and Linguistic Research with a Parsed Corpus of Japanese' with which all the guest editors are associated.

Highlights

Extension of parsed corpora for dedicated uses in language processing (Pintzuk; Bin Li et al), (II) linguistic research using parsed corpora (Kubota and Kubota; Kishimoto and Pardeshi), and (III) the application of parsed corpora to language pedagogy (Wallis et al)
As modes of accessing annotation have become more linguistically sophisticated, so these corpus resources have become more relevant for linguistics in general by providing sources of insight into factors that only become visible through analysis generalized over structures: phenomena in co-occurrence, frequency, constituency, embeddability, scope, agreement, dependency, etc
While much research has concentrated on challenges inherent in the creation as well as correction of annotated corpora (e.g., Dickinson and Meurers (2003), Hovy and Lavid (2010), Kulick et al. (2013), etc.), with the availability of digitized data on a large scale and the production of parsed corpora as available resources, new challenges have opened up for making use of corpus-building technologies and the resulting data in subsequent research

Summary

Introduction

Extension of parsed corpora for dedicated uses in language processing (Pintzuk; Bin Li et al), (II) linguistic research using parsed corpora (Kubota and Kubota; Kishimoto and Pardeshi), and (III) the application of parsed corpora to language pedagogy (Wallis et al). Over the last few decades, corpora with comprehensive syntactic annotation, known as treebanks or parsed corpora, have been created in various formats for major languages of the world (e.g., Sampson (1995), Bies et al.

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