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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
tree + bank
Pronunciation
Noun
treebank (plural treebanks)
- (linguistics, computational linguistics) A database of sentences which are annotated with syntactic information, often in the form of a tree.
- 2003, Diana Santos, “Timber! Issues in treebank building and use” in Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, eds. Nuno J. Mamede, Jorge Baptista, Isabel Trancoso, Maria das Gracas Volpe Nunes, p. 152
- If one wants to use a treebank for linguistic investigation,
Translations
Verb
treebank (third-person singular simple present treebanks, present participle treebanking, simple past and past participle treebanked)
- (linguistics, computational linguistics) To parse and annotate sentences according to a treebank.