Manuals and Additional Documentation

t-layer

• Tectogrammatical (deep syntax) annotation manual for Czech (pdf in Czech; pdf in English; html in Czech; html in English)
• Reference version of tectogrammatical annotation manual for Czech (pdf in Czech; pdf in English)
• Additions to tectogrammatical annotation for Czech (pdf in Czech; pdf in English)
• Coreference annotation manual (pdf in English)
• Tectogrammatical (deep syntax) annotation manual for English (from 2006) (pdf in English)
• English tectogrammatical layer in a nutshell (html in English)
• Formemes (html in English)

a-layer

• Analytical (surface dependency syntax) annotation manual (pdf in Czech; pdf in English; html in Czech, html in English)
• English analytical layer in a nutshell (html in English)

m-layer

• Morphological annotation manual for Czech (pdf in English)
• Part-of-Speech Tagging Guidelines for PennTreebank (pdf in English)

other

• Instructions for translators and correctors (pdf in Czech)
• Engvallex-to-Propbank mapping - the most frequent only (txt)
• Engvallex-to-Propbank mapping - all mappings, without node ids (txt)
• Engvallex-to-Propbank mapping - all mappings, with node ids (txt)

Annotation Principles and Guidelines Related to PennTreebank

Co-reference Guidelines for English OntoNotes. BBN Technologies 2004-2007. (pdf)

Bies Ann, Ferguson Mark, Katz Karen: Bracketing Guidelines for Treebank II Style. Elements, 1995. (pdf)

Bonial Claire, Babko-Malaya Olga, Choi Jinho D., Hwang Jena, Palmer Martha, Reese Nicholas: PropBank Annotation Guidelines. Version 3.0. Center for Computational Language and Education Research, Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Colorado at Boulder. 2010. (pdf)

Brunstein Ada: Annotation Guidelines for Answer Types. BBN Technologies. 2002. (html)

Meyers Adam: Annotation Guidelines for NomBank – Noun Argument Structure for PropBank. 2007. (pdf)

OntoNotes Release 4.0. 2010. (pdf)

Santorini Beatrice: Part-of-Speech Tagging Guidelines for the Penn Treebank Project. University of Pennsylvania 3rd Revision 2nd Printing, 1990. (pdf)

Vadas David, Curran James R.: Parsing Noun Phrases in the Penn Treebank. Computational Linguistics, Volume 37, Issue 4, pp. 753–809, 2011. (pdf)