The Dundee Treebank

We introduce the Dundee Treebank, a Universal Dependencies-style syntactic annotation layer on top of the English side of the Dundee Corpus. As the Dundee Corpus is an important resource for conducting large-scale psycholinguistic research, we aim at facilitating further research in the field by replacing automatic parses with manually assigned syntax. We report on constructing the treebank, performing parsing experiments, as well as replicating a broad-scale psycholinguistic study—now for the first time using manually assigned syntactic dependencies.

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