Here’s one for the linguistics enthusiasts out there!<\/b><\/p>\n
A treebank<\/b>, according to Wiki<\/a>…<\/p>\n …is a text corpus in which each sentence has been annotated with syntactic structure. Syntactic structure is commonly represented as a tree structure, hence the name treebank. Treebanks can be used in corpus linguistics for studying syntactic phenomena or in computational linguistics for training or testing parsers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Simple, right?<\/p>\n Seriously though, this is cool stuff. I have sort of a peripheral interest in social linguistics and computational linguistics, and though I don’t have much direct use for these tools, I recognize that having a corpus<\/b> and a treebank<\/b> for a given language opens up a lot of doors. Say you want to record a conversation, then analyze it syntactically<\/b>; a treebank would allow you to feed a transcription of the recording into a parser<\/b>.<\/p>\n Ok, ok this is pretty esoteric stuff admittedly. What does this have to do with Portuguese? Good question…<\/p>\n