Everything about Treebank

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: TreebankA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Syntactic and typological properties of translational language: A comparative description of dependency treebank of academic abstractsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Corpus Linguistics and Linguistically Annotated CorporaThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: The Penn Chinese TreeBank: Phrase structure annotation of a large corpusCited 226 times
5. Go sideways: Linguistic categoriesA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Quranic Arabic CorpusA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• The Penn Chinese TreeBank: Phrase structure annotation of a large corpus

  NAIWEN XUE, FEI XIA, FU-DONG CHIOU · 2005 · Natural Language Engineering · 226 citations

• The effects of sentence length on dependency distance, dependency direction and the implications–Based on a parallel English–Chinese dependency treebank

  Jingyang Jiang, Haitao Liu · 2015 · Language Sciences · 111 citations

• CCGbank: A Corpus of CCG Derivations and Dependency Structures Extracted from the Penn Treebank

  Julia Hockenmaier, Mark Steedman · 2007 · Computational Linguistics · 81 citations

• Using a Chinese treebank to measure dependency distance

  Haitao Liu, Richard Hudson, Zhiwei Feng · 2009 · Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory · 57 citations

• A Sentiment Treebank and Morphologically Enriched Recursive Deep Models for Effective Sentiment Analysis in Arabic

  Ramy Baly, Hazem Hajj, Nizar Habash · 2017 · ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing · 46 citations

• The Chinese Discourse TreeBank: a Chinese corpus annotated with discourse relations

  Yuping Zhou, Nianwen Xue · 2014 · Language Resources and Evaluation · 42 citations

• Probability Distribution of Dependencies Based on a Chinese Dependency Treebank

  Haitao Liu · 2009 · Journal of Quantitative Linguistics · 41 citations

• Building the essential resources for Finnish: the Turku Dependency Treebank

  Katri Haverinen, Jenna Nyblom, Timo Viljanen · 2013 · Language Resources and Evaluation · 30 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Syntactic and typological properties of translational language: A comparative description of dependency treebank of academic abstracts

  Yan Liang, Zhonggang Sang · 2022 · Lingua · 17 citations

• Effects of Syntactic Distance and Word Order on Language Processing: An Investigation Based on a Psycholinguistic Treebank of English

  Ruochen Niu, Haitao Liu · 2022 · Journal of Psycholinguistic Research · 14 citations

• A complete, multi-layered quranic treebank dataset with hybrid syntactic annotations for classical arabic processing

  Wadee A. Nashir, Abdulqader M. Mohsen, Asma A. Al-Shargabi · 2025 · Data in Brief · 7 citations

• Toward a Universal Dependencies Treebank of Old English: Representing the Morphological Relatedness of Un-Derivatives

  Javier Martín Arista · 2024 · Languages · 7 citations

• Two languages, one treebank: building a Turkish–German code-switching treebank and its challenges

  Özlem Çetinoğlu, Çağrı Çöltekin · 2022 · Language Resources and Evaluation · 6 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Corpus Linguistics and Linguistically Annotated CorporaSandra Kuebler, Heike Zinsmeister · 2014
• TreebanksA. Abeillé · 2003
• 📕Diachronic Treebanks for Historical LinguisticsHanne Martine Eckhoff, Silvia Luraghi · 2020
• 📕RhapsodieAnne Lacheret-Dujour, Sylvain Kahane · 2019
• LifeTime: Max Scheler's Philosophy of TimeM.S. Frings · 2003
• Dependency parsingSandra Kübler · 2009
• Bitext alignmentJörg Tiedemann · 2011
• TreebanksAnne Abeillé · 2004

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🔗 Related topics

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• Eva Hajičová Eva Hajičová [ˈɛva ˈɦajɪt͡ʃovaː] (born 23 August 1935) is a Czech linguist, specializing in topic–focus articulation and corpus linguistics. In 2006, she…
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