# CGELBank: CGEL as a Framework for English Syntax Annotation

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.00394 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.00394/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
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- First posted on arXiv 1 Oct 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [Stanza: A Python Natural Language Processing Toolkit for Many Human Languages](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.07082/) (2020)
- [Universal Dependencies v2: An Evergrowing Multilingual Treebank Collection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.10643/) (2020)
- [Mischievous Nominal Constructions in Universal Dependencies](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.12928/) (2021)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We introduce the syntactic formalism of the textitCambridge 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.