Welcome to the Alpino Treebank website. The Alpino treebank contains syntactically annotated Dutch sentences. The treebank (more than 150,000 words) includes the full cdbl (newspaper) part of the Eindhoven corpus.

The Alpino Treebank was released in 2002. In the mean-time, our treebanking efforts have led to various corrections of the actual annotations, improvements of the various tools we use, and differences in the actual XML-format that we use for the annotations.

For our more recent treebanking efforts, please refer to the LASSY project. You will find documentation of the most recent formats, tools and treebanks there.

The Alpino Treebank CDROM was created in the context of the NWO Pionier project Algorithms for Linguistic Processing.

Original CDROM Version

The content of the CDROM which appeared in November 2002.

Publications

• Robert Malouf, Gertjan van Noord. Wide Coverage Parsing with Stochastic Attribute Value Grammars. In: IJCNLP-04 Workshop Beyond Shallow Analyses - Formalisms and statistical modeling for deep analyses. [pdf,web page]
• Chapter 5. The Alpino Dependency Treebank. In: Leonoor van der Beek, Gosse Bouma, Jan Daciuk, Tanja Gaustad, Robert Malouf, Gertjan van Noord, Robbert Prins, Begoña Villada, Algorithms for Linguistic Processing NWO PIONIER Progress Report. Groningen 2002. [pdf]
• Leonoor van der Beek, Gosse Bouma, Robert Malouf, Gertjan van Noord. The Alpino Dependency Treebank. In: Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands CLIN 2001. Rodopi 2002. [pdf]
• Leonoor van der Beek, Gosse Bouma, and Gertjan van Noord. Een brede computationele grammatica voor het Nederlands. Nederlandse Taalkunde, 2002. [pdf]
• Gosse Bouma and Geert Kloosterman. Querying dependency treebanks in XML. In Proceedings of the Third international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Gran Canaria, 2002. [pdf]
• Gosse Bouma, Gertjan van Noord, Robert Malouf. Alpino: Wide Coverage Computational Analysis of Dutch. In: Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands CLIN 2000. Rodopi 2001. [pdf]

Who to blame

• Leonoor van der Beek (annotation)
• Gosse Bouma (annotation)
• Jan Daciuk (tools)
• Geert Kloosterman (tools)
• Robert Malouf (tools)
• Gertjan van Noord (annotation, tools)
• Robbert Prins (art work, tools)

Feedback

We appreciate your feedback if you find errors. Please send a polite email to: vannoord@let.rug.nl

Hugo Brandt Corstius was keynote speaker at the 13th CLIN meeting (29 November 2002 in Groningen). After his presentation, the first cdrom was officially handed to him.