Automatic Procedures in Tectogrammatical Tagging

A semi-automatic syntactic annotation of a part of the Czech National Corpus in the Prague Dependency Treebank (PDT) has among its aims the possibility to check the theoretical approach chosen (Functional Generative Description, see [2]). While the first phases of the annotation of PDT, i.e. the morphemic representations and the dependency trees on an intermediate analytic level, i.e. analytic tree structures (ATSs, see [1]) have been discussed elsewhere, the present paper is devoted to the second, basic phase, the transduction from AL to (underlying) syntax itself, i.e. to tectogrammatical representations, which should be provided for 10 000 sentences during the year 2000 (at its start, 100 000 sentences have obtained their ATS annotations).