Sinica Treebank
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TL;DR
The design criteria and annotation guidelines of Sinica Treebank are described and one of the important design decisions following these criteria is the encoding of thematic role information.
Abstract
This paper describes the design criteria and annotation guidelines of Sinica Treebank. The three design criteria are: Maximal Resource Sharing, Minimal Structural Complexity, and Optimal Semantic Information. One of the important design decisions following these criteria is the encoding of thematic role information. An on-line interface facilitating empirical studies of Chinese phrase structure is also described.