Automatic Processing of Linguistic Data as a Feedback for Linguistic Theory

The paper describes a method of identifying a set of interesting constructions in a syntactically annotated corpus of Czech – the Prague Dependency Treebank – by application of an automatic procedure of analysis by reduction to the trees in the treebank. The procedure clearly reveals certain linguistic phenomena that go beyond ‘dependency nature’ (and thus generally pose a problem for dependency-based formalisms). Moreover, it provides a feedback indicating that the annotation of a particular phenomenon might be inconsistent.

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