Annotating Predicate-Argument Structure for a Parallel Treebank

TL;DR

This paper presents the development of a multi-layered parallel treebank for English and German, focusing on predicate-argument annotation to improve sentence alignment and linguistic analysis across languages.

Contribution

It introduces a novel predicate-argument layer for a parallel treebank, detailing conceptual and technical aspects of its creation and alignment process.

Findings

Successful creation of a bilingual parallel treebank with predicate-argument annotations

Identification of key challenges in aligning predicate-argument structures across languages

Discussion of how this approach compares to similar multilingual annotation projects

Abstract

We report on a recently initiated project which aims at building a multi-layered parallel treebank of English and German. Particular attention is devoted to a dedicated predicate-argument layer which is used for aligning translationally equivalent sentences of the two languages. We describe both our conceptual decisions and aspects of their technical realisation. We discuss some selected problems and conclude with a few remarks on how this project relates to similar projects in the field.