Recently, there has been great interest both in the development of cross-linguistically applicable annotation schemes and in the application of syntactic parsers at web scale to create parsebanks of online texts. The combination of these two trends to create massive, consistently annotated parsebanks in many languages holds enormous potential for the quantitative study of many linguistic phenom...

This paper presents a Chinese dependency syntax for treebanking. The syntax contains 13 word classes and 34 dependency types. A format of treebank based on the syntax is also proposed for the applications of computational and general linguistic research. Some experiments show that the treebank based on the proposed dependency syntax can be used for training and evaluating the dependency parser ...

Meaning conveyance is bottlenecked by the linguistic conventions shared among interlocutors. One possibility to convey non-conventionalized meaning is to employ known expressions in such a way that the intended meaning can be abduced from them. This, in turn, can give rise to ambiguity. We investigate this process with a focus on its use for semantic coordination and show it to be conducive to ...