We describe a large coreference annotation task performed on a corpus of 266 papers from the ACL Anthology, a publicly, electronically available collection of scientific papers in the domain of computational linguistics and language technology. The annotation comprises mainly noun phrase coreference of the full textual content of each paper in the Anthology subset. It has been performed careful...

This paper aims to examine and evaluate the current development of using Web-as-Corpus (WaC) paradigm in Chinese corpus linguistics. I will argue that the unstable notion of wordhood in Chinese and the resulting diverse ideas of implementing word segmentation systems have posed great challenges for those who are keen on building web-scaled corpus data. Two lexical measures are proposed to illus...

In this paper, we present the CItA corpus (Corpus Italiano di Apprendenti L1), a collection of essays written by Italian L1 learners collected during the first and second year of lower secondary school. The corpus was built in the framework of an interdisciplinary study jointly carried out by computational linguistics and experimental pedagogists and aimed at tracking the development of written...

One of the goals of the LASSY STEVIN project (Large Scale Syntactic Annotation of written Dutch) is a syntactically annotated (manually verified) corpus of 1 million words. In addition, the full STEVIN reference corpus of 500 million words will be syntactically annotated automatically. In this paper, the potential of such huge treebanks for applications in corpus linguistics, natural language p...

This paper aims to carve out a place for corpus research within theoretical linguistics and psycholinguistics. We argue that annotated corpora naturally complement native speaker intuitions and controlled psycholinguistic methods and thus can be powerful tools for developing and evaluating linguistic theories. We also review basic methods and best practices for moving from corpus annotations to...