Tagging Grammatical Functions

TL;DR

This paper explores extending POS tagging techniques to structural annotation for grammatical functions in treebanks, emphasizing an interactive manual-automatic process with promising efficiency and accuracy, and discusses future automation improvements.

Contribution

It introduces a method for applying POS tagging techniques to structural annotation of grammatical functions, enhancing automated treebank construction.

Findings

Efficiency and accuracy results are presented.

Annotation process is interactive, combining manual and automatic steps.

Discussion on future automation steps.

Abstract

This paper addresses issues in automated treebank construction. We show how standard part-of-speech tagging techniques extend to the more general problem of structural annotation, especially for determining grammatical functions and syntactic categories. Annotation is viewed as an interactive process where manual and automatic processing alternate. Efficiency and accuracy results are presented. We also discuss further automation steps.