Abstract
In this paper we present the first release version of our dependency bank for the British National Corpus. We describe the process of annotating the corpus with syntactic information, discuss the resulting dependency annotation and outline a database storage model for the annotation. We then present a web-based interface to the syntactically annotated data and provide an overview of its functionality. The use of fully automatically parsed data without massive manual intervention is far from unproblematic, given the limited accuracy of state of the art parsers. We discuss the problems inherent to automatic annotation and present strategies for coping with them. The purpose of this project is to give general linguists access to the wealth of syntactic and distributional information present in a large corpus like the British National Corpus.
Lehmann, Hans Martin