treebank

English

Alternative forms

  • tree bank

Etymology

From tree +‎ bank, coined by British linguist Geoffrey Leech in analogy with seed bank, blood bank, etc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɹiː.bæŋk/
  • Rhymes: -æŋk

Noun

treebank (plural treebanks)

  1. (computational linguistics) A database (corpus) of sentences which are annotated with syntactic information, often in the form of a tree.
    • 2003, Diana Santos, “Timber! Issues in treebank building and use”, in Nuno J. Mamede, Jorge Baptista, Isabel Trancoso, Maria das Gracas Volpe Nunes, editors, Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, page 152:
      If one wants to use a treebank for linguistic investigation, […] .
    • 2020, “Introduction”, in Hanne Martine Eckhoff, Silvia Luraghi, Marco Passarotti, editors, Diachronic Treebanks for Historical Linguistics, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 2:
      A treebank is a text corpus with exhaustive syntactic annotation, typically applied on top of lemmatization, PoS tagging and morphological annotation.

Translations

Verb

treebank (third-person singular simple present treebanks, present participle treebanking, simple past and past participle treebanked)

  1. (computational linguistics) To parse and annotate sentences according to a treebank.

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