Bunsetsu-based Dependency Relation and Coordinate Structure Annotation on ‘Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese’

Abstract

This article presents syntactic annotation for ‘Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese’. We propose a syntactic annotation schema wherein the bunsetsu dependency and coordinate structure are separated. In addition, we propose an annotation standard to determine the attachments beyond clause boundaries. Our annotation schema and standard have issues associated the hierarchical annotation processes. Furthermore, we present the basic statistics of the annotation data.