English Explanatory Dictionary

treebank

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A database (corpus) of sentences which are annotated with syntactic information, often in the form of a tree.
verb
  1. To parse and annotate sentences according to a treebank.

Pronunciation

/ˈtɹiː.bæŋk/

Word forms

treebank treebanks tree bank treebanking treebanked

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *drew- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Germanic *trewą Proto-West Germanic *treu Old English trēow Middle English tre English tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der. Proto-Germanic *bankiz Proto-West Germanic *banki Lombardic bankbor. Italian bancabor. Middle French banqueder. English bank English treebank From tree + bank, coined by British linguist Geoffrey Leech in analogy with seed bank, blood bank, etc.

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