treebank

English

Alternative forms

• tree bank

Etymology

tree +‎ bank

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹiː.bæŋk/
• Rhymes: -æŋk

Noun

treebank (plural treebanks)

1. (linguistics, computational linguistics) A database of sentences which are annotated with syntactic information, often in the form of a tree.
   • 2003, Diana Santos, “Timber! Issues in treebank building and use” in Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, eds. Nuno J. Mamede, Jorge Baptista, Isabel Trancoso, Maria das Gracas Volpe Nunes, p. 152

     If one wants to use a treebank for linguistic investigation, […]

Translations

database of trees

• Dutch: treebank c, boombank f
• Finnish: puupankki
• French: corpus arboré m
• German: Baumbank f
• Icelandic: trjábanki m
• Japanese: ツリーバンク (tsurībanku)
• Polish: bank drzew m
• Swedish: trädbank c

Verb

treebank (third-person singular simple present treebanks, present participle treebanking, simple past and past participle treebanked)

1. (linguistics, computational linguistics) To parse and annotate sentences according to a treebank.