Deep Syntax Annotation of the Sequoia French Treebank

We define a deep syntactic representation scheme for French, which abstracts away from surface syntactic variation and diathesis alternations, and describe the annotation of deep syntactic representations on top of the surface dependency trees of the Sequoia corpus. The resulting deep-annotated corpus, named DEEP - SEQUOIA, is freely available, and hopefully useful for corpus linguistics studies and for training deep analyzers to prepare semantic analysis.

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