CGELBank Annotation Manual v1.0

CGELBank is a treebank and associated tools based on a syntactic formalism for English derived from the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. This document lays out the particularities of the CGELBank annotation scheme.

CGELBank: CGEL as a Framework for English Syntax Annotation

We introduce the syntactic formalism of the \textit{Cambridge Grammar of the English Language} (CGEL) to the world of treebanking through the CGELBank project. We discuss some issues in linguistic analysis that arose in adapting the formalism to corpus annotation, followed by quantitative and qualitative comparisons with parallel UD and PTB treebanks. We argue that CGEL provides a good tradeoff between comprehensiveness of analysis and usability for annotation, which motivates expanding the treebank with automatic conversion in the future.