Swedish Treebank

The goal of this project is to build a large-scale treebank for Swedish, containing both spoken and written language data, and annotated with both constituent structure and dependency structures. The project is a cooperation involving the following institutions:

Växjö university, School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering (coordinator)
Göteborg University, Department of Linguistics
Göteborg University, Department of Swedish
KTH, Department of Speech, Music and Hearing
KTH, Department of Numerical Analysis and Computer Science
Linköpings universitet, Department of Computer Science
Stockholm University, Department of Linguistics
Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics

A startup project was funded by The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond). In November 2002, the first Swedish Treebank Symposium was held at Teleborgs Slott, Växjö. Currently, the project has no funding, but some related activities are supported by the Nordic Treebank Network.

Publications

Nivre, J. (2002) What kinds of trees grow in Swedish soil? A comparison of four annotation schemes for Swedish. In Hinrichs, E. and Simov, K. (eds) Proceedings of the First Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2002), 20-21 September 2002, Sozopol, Bulgaria.
Nivre, J. (2003) Theory-Supporting Treebanks. In Nivre, J. and Hinrichs, E. (eds.) Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2003), Växjö University Press, pp. 117-128.
Nilsson, J., Hall, J. and Nivre, J. (2005) MAMBA Meets TIGER: Reconstructing a Swedish Treebank from Antiquity. In Proceedings from the special session on treebanks at NODALIDA 2005.

Degree Projects

Treebank conversion: Two available treebanks for Swedish are Talbanken (Einarsson 1976) and SynTag (Järborg 1986). However, the annotation in these corpora do not in all respects satisfy the requirements of a new Swedish treebank. The goal of this project is to investigate the feasibility of converting one or both of these corpora to a treebank with a theory-supporting annotation scheme along the lines suggested in Nivre (2003). [Open]