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Finnish (fi)

Turku Dependency Treebank (TDT)

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Obtaining and License

The TDT is freely downloadable from here under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license. The license in short:

TDT was created by members of the Turku BioNLP Group, University of Turku (Turun yliopisto), 20014 Turku, Finland.

References

Domain

Mixed (Wikipedia, Wikinews, university web-magazine and blogs).

Size

TDT contains 58576 tokens in 4307 sentences, yielding 13.60 tokens per sentence on average. No official training-test data split is defined. For our HamleDT experiments, we took the first 90 % (53151 tokens / 3877 sentences) for training and the remaining 10 % (5425 tokens / 430 sentences) for testing.

Inside

The treebank is part of the Arborest project and VISL (Visual Interactive Syntax Learning). As such, it is based on Constraint Grammar (Fred Karlsson et al., 1995: Constraint Grammar – A Language-Independent System for Parsing Unrestricted Text. Mouton de Gruyter). All four parts are available in the TIGER-XML format. Two of them are also available in the VISL format.

The annotation contains lemmas, part of speech tags, morphosyntactic features, nonterminal labels and phrase structure. It is not clear whether (and to what degree) the annotation was performed or checked manually.

Note that the TIGER-XML format, despite being phrase-based, stores word order separately from structure and thus allows for nonprojectivities.

Sample

The first sentence of the corpus in the TIGER-XML format:

<s id="ratsep-13" ref="ratsep-1" source="id=ratsep-1" forest="1/1" text="Peeter aerutas üle väina saarele puhkama">
	<graph root="ratsep-13_501">
		<terminals>
			<t id="ratsep-13_1" word="Peeter" lemma="Peeter+0" pos="prop" morph="prop,sg,nom,.cap"/>
			<t id="ratsep-13_2" word="aerutas" lemma="aeruta+s" pos="v-fin" morph="main,indic,impf,ps3,sg,ps,af,.FinV"/>
			<t id="ratsep-13_3" word="üle" lemma="üle+0" pos="prp" morph="pre,.gen"/>
			<t id="ratsep-13_4" word="väina" lemma="väin+0" pos="n" morph="com,sg,gen"/>
			<t id="ratsep-13_5" word="saarele" lemma="saar+le" pos="n" morph="com,sg,all"/>
			<t id="ratsep-13_6" word="puhkama" lemma="puhka+ma" pos="v-inf" morph="main,sup,ps,ill,.Part"/>
			<t id="ratsep-13_7" word="." lemma="." pos="punc" morph="Fst"/>
		</terminals>
 
		<nonterminals>
			<nt id="ratsep-13_501" cat="VROOT">
				<edge label="STA" idref="ratsep-13_502"/>
			</nt>
			<nt id="ratsep-13_502" cat="fcl">
				<edge label="S" idref="ratsep-13_1"/>
				<edge label="P" idref="ratsep-13_2"/>
				<edge label="A" idref="ratsep-13_503"/>
				<edge label="A" idref="ratsep-13_5"/>
				<edge label="A" idref="ratsep-13_6"/>
				<edge label="FST" idref="ratsep-13_7"/>
			</nt>
			<nt id="ratsep-13_503" cat="pp">
				<edge label="H" idref="ratsep-13_3"/>
				<edge label="D" idref="ratsep-13_4"/>
			</nt>
		</nonterminals>
	</graph>
</s>

Parsing

Nonprojectivities in EKP are very rare. Only 7 out of the 9491 tokens are attached nonprojectively (0.074%).

There is a constraint grammar parser for Estonian by Kaili Müürisep. I am not aware of any published evaluation of parsing accuracy. However, I am not sure that the treebank described here is not just output of the parser.


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