High-accuracy Annotation and Parsing of CHILDES Transcripts

Corpora of child language are essential for psycholinguistic research. Linguistic annotation of the corpora provides researchers with better means for exploring the development of grammatical constructions and their usage. We describe an ongoing project that aims to annotate the English section of the CHILDES database with grammatical relations in the form of labeled dependency structures. To date, we have produced a corpus of over 65,000 words with manually curated gold-standard grammatical relation annotations. Using this corpus, we have developed a highly accurate data-driven parser for English CHILDES data. The parser and the manually annotated data are freely available for research purposes.

• Publication year

  2007

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  Unknown venue

• Publication date

  2007-06-29

• Fields of study

  Linguistics, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.3115/1629795.1629799
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