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Defining the Eukalyptus forest - the Koala treebank of Swedish

Yvonne Adesam
Språkbanken, Department of Swedish, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Gerlof Bouma
Språkbanken, Department of Swedish, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Richard Johansson
Språkbanken, Department of Swedish, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

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Published in: Proceedings of the 20th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics, NODALIDA 2015, May 11-13, 2015, Vilnius, Lithuania

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 109:4, p. 1-9

NEALT Proceedings Series 23:4, p. 1-9

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Published: 2015-05-06

ISBN: 978-91-7519-098-3

ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)

Abstract

This paper describes the creation of the Koala corpus, a 100k token manually an- notated corpus of Swedish contemporary texts, and in particular the part-of-speech and syntactic annotation. The resource will be made freely available.

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