Automatic Functor Assignment in the Prague Dependency Treebank

Abstract

This paper presents work in progress, the goal of which is to develop a module for automatic transition from analytic tree structures to tectogrammatical tree structures within the Prague Dependency Treebank project. Several rule-based and dictionary-based methods were combined in order to be able to make maximal use of both information extractable from the training set and a priori knowledge. The implementation of this approach was verified on a testing set, and a detailed evaluation of the results achieved so far is presented.

I would like to thank my advisor Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová for her permanent support. I am also indebted to Alevtina Bémová for consultations about functor assignment, to Petr Pajas for the help with the data preprocessing and to Julia Hockenmaier for her useful comments.