treebank
/ˈtɹiː.bæŋk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.01 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A database (corpus) of sentences which are annotated with syntactic information, often in the form of a tree.
verb
To parse and annotate sentences according to a treebank.
Example Sentences
- "If one wants to use a treebank for linguistic investigation, […]."
- "A treebank is a text corpus with exhaustive syntactic annotation, typically applied on top of lemmatization, PoS tagging and morphological annotation."
- "Futrell et al. (2015b) also did some probabilistic grammar modeling, such that they pick the most likely order of a head and its dependents, in the rules that are given by the parses in the treebank for a language."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *drew- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Germanic *trewą Proto-West Germanic *treu Old English trēow Middle English tre English tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der. Proto-Germanic *bankiz Proto-West Germanic *banki Lombardic bankbor. Italian bancabor. Middle French banqueder. English bank English treebank From tree + bank, coined by British linguist Geoffrey Leech in analogy with seed bank, blood bank, etc.