treebank en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈtɹiː.bæŋk/
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *drew- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Germanic *trewą Proto-West Germanic *treu Old English trēow Middle English tre English tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der. Proto-Germanic *bankiz Proto-West Germanic *banki Lombardic bankbor. Italian bancabor. Middle French banqueder. English bank English treebank From tree + bank, coined by British linguist Geoffrey Leech in analogy with seed bank, blood bank, etc.
Meanings
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A database (corpus) of sentences which are annotated with syntactic information, often in the form of a tree.
If one wants to use a treebank for linguistic investigation, […].
2003, Diana Santos, “Timber! Issues in treebank building and use”, in Nuno J. Mamede, Jorge Baptista, Isabel Trancoso, Maria das Gracas Volpe Nunes, editors, Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, page 152:A treebank is a text corpus with exhaustive syntactic annotation, typically applied on top of lemmatization, PoS tagging and morphological annotation.
2020, “Introduction”, in Hanne Martine Eckhoff, Silvia Luraghi, Marco Passarotti, editors, Diachronic Treebanks for Historical Linguistics, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 2:Futrell et al. (2015b) also did some probabilistic grammar modeling, such that they pick the most likely order of a head and its dependents, in the rules that are given by the parses in the treebank for a language.
2025, Edward A. F. Gibson, “Dependency Length Minimization as a Constraint on Grammars” (chapter 5), in Syntax: A Cognitive Approach, MIT Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 139:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| tree bank | alternative | lexicographic | |
| treebanks | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (10)
de Baumbank (database of trees) · nl treebank (database of trees) · fr corpus arboré (database of trees) · fi puupankki (database of trees) · ja ツリーバンク (database of trees) · is trjábanki (database of trees) · pl bank drzew (database of trees) · cmn 樹庫 /树库 (database of trees) · nl boombank (database of trees) · sv trädbank (database of trees)