An Open Infrastructure for Advanced Treebanking

Increases in the number and size of treebanks, and the complexity of their annotation, present challenges to their exploration by the research community. Adhering to different formalisms, lacking clear standards, and requiring specialized search and visualization and other services, treebanks have not been widely accessible to a broad audience and have remained underexploited. The INESS project is providing the first infrastructure integrating treebank annotation, analysis and distribution, bringing together treebanks for many different languages, spanning different annotation schemes and including parallel treebanks. The infrastructure offers a uniform interface, interactive visualizations, leading edge search capabilities and high performance computing.