Creating an MTT Treebank of Spanish

We present a cost effective strategy for the creation of a mid-size fine-grained dependency treebank of surfaceand deep-syntactic structures as defined in the Meaning-Text Theory for Spanish. The strategy starts from a small seed dependency corpus, the AnCora corpus, whose annotation is considerably more coarse-grained than our target annotation. We show that this discrepancy can be bridged largely by automatic means, relying upon contextual information and leaving thus minimal work to the annotators. This allows us to develop the resources with limited human effort within a limited period of time. We also propose a preliminary evaluation of the actual amount of work that the annotation process requires.