Thoughts on Two Decades of Drawing Trees

The task of producing consistent, comprehensive structural annotations for reallife written and spoken usage teaches lessons that run counter to some of the assumptions of recent linguistics. It is not easy to believe that a natural language is a well-defined system, or that questions about the analysis of particular turs of phrase always have “right answers”. Computational linguistics has been at risk of repeating mistakes made by the general fiels of computing in the 1960s; we need to learn from the discipline of software engineering. On the other hand, annotated corpora of real-life usage are already yielding findings about human nature that were unsuspected before these resources become available.

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