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Building Cast3LB: A Spanish Treebank

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In this paper we present and justify methodological principles and syntactic criteria to build Cast3LB: a treebank for Spanish. As a previous work necessary to develop it, some automatic and semiautomatic processes have been carried out: automatic morphological analysis and disambiguation; manual validation of the tagging process, which guarantees the quality of the data; and, finally, automatic shallow parsing. The syntactic annotation consists of the labelling of constituents, including some elliptical elements, and syntactic functions. In this paper we focus on the second phase, presenting the basic guidelines for syntactic annotation and the boundaries of the work being done.

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    Montserrat Civit & Ma Antònia Martí

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Civit, M., Martí, M.A. Building Cast3LB: A Spanish Treebank. Res Lang Comput 2, 549–574 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11168-004-7429-x

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