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| Title: | Morphosyntactic annotation of CHILDES transcripts |
| Author: | Kenji Sagae |
| Institution: | University of Southern California |
| Author: | Eric Davis |
| Institution: | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Author: | Alon Lavie |
| Institution: | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Author: | Brian Macwhinney |
| Email: | click here to access email |
| Institution: | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Author: | Shuly Wintner |
| Institution: | University of Haifa |
| Linguistic Field: | Computational Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics |
| Abstract: | Corpora of child language are essential for research in child language acquisition and psycholinguistics. Linguistic annotation of the corpora provides researchers with better means for exploring the development of grammatical constructions and their usage. We describe a project whose goal is to annotate the English section of the CHILDES database with grammatical relations in the form of labeled dependency structures. We have produced a corpus of over 18,800 utterances (approximately 65,000 words) with manually curated gold-standard grammatical relation annotations. Using this corpus, we have developed a highly accurate data-driven parser for the English CHILDES data, which we used to automatically annotate the remainder of the English section of CHILDES. We have also extended the parser to Spanish, and are currently working on supporting more languages. The parser and the manually and automatically annotated data are freely available for research purposes. |
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This article appears in Journal of Child Language Vol. 37, Issue 3, which you can read on Cambridge's site or on LINGUIST . |
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