Data

The Prague Discourse Treebank 2.0 can be downloaded as a single zip archive from the LINDAT-Clarin repository (see the Licence).

After unzipping the downloaded archive, the data can be found in the directory data, where they are further divided into ten subdirectories (train-1 ... train-8, dtest, etest). Annotation of each document is captured in four interlinked files, in accordance with the layer of annotation: word layer (files *.w.gz), morphological layer (*.m.gz), analytical layer (*.a.gz), and tectogrammatical layer(*.t.gz).

The data are stored in the Prague Markup Language (PML, Pajas and Štěpánek 2008) format, which is an XML based format for linguistic annotations (esp. treebanks). For the sake of completeness, PML schemata of the files can be found in the directory resources. (The schemata are XML files that describe the structure of the annotated files.) Also, the valency lexicon PDT-Vallex 3.0 can be found in the same directory.

How to browse the data

Tree editor TrEd (Pajas and Štěpánek 2008) can be used to open and browse the data. The editor can be downloaded for various platforms from its home page. Please follow the installation instructions specified at the page for your operating system.

After the installation, an extension needs to be installed:

  1. Start TrEd.
  2. In the top menu, select Setup -> Manage Extensions...; a dialog window with a list of installed extensions appears.
  3. Click on the button "Get New Extensions"; a dialog window with a list of available (not yet installed) extensions appears.
  4. Make sure that at least the extension "Prague Discourse Treebank 2.0 (pdit20)" is checked to install (if it is not in the list, it may have already been installed).
  5. Click on the button "Install Selected"; the selected extensions get installed.
  6. Close all TrEd windows including the main application window and start TrEd again.

Now, TrEd is able to open the data of PDiT 2.0. To see the annotation of a document on the tectogrammatical layer, open the respective file with extension .t.gz.

In case of troubles with the installation of TrEd or with browsing the data, please contact the authors at (tred at ufal.mff.cuni.cz).

How to search the data

PML Tree Query (PML-TQ; Pajas and Štěpánek 2009) is a powerful client-server based system for querying treebanks, developed primarily for searching in PDT data. TrEd can be used as a user-friendly graphically oriented client, using the extension "PML Tree Query Interface for TrEd (pmltq)" (follow the same installation steps as for the pdit20 extension described above). To get access to the public PML-TQ server provided by our institute, please contact the administrators at (tred at ufal.mff.cuni.cz). Please refer to the PML-TQ web page for further information.

The public PML-TQ server of our institute can be accessed also anonymously using a web browser as the client. Unlike the TrEd client, it does not need any registration but lacks the possibility to create a query graphically and has limitations in the ways it can display the results. However, it is the quickest way to get to the data.

References

Pajas, P. and Štěpánek, J.: Recent Advances in a Feature-Rich Framework for Treebank Annotation. In: The 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Proceedings of the Conference, The Coling 2008 Organizing Committee, Manchester, UK, ISBN 978-1-905593-45-3, pp. 673-680, 2008.

Pajas, P. and Štěpánek, J.: System for Querying Syntactically Annotated Corpora. In: Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Software Demonstrations, Association for Computational Linguistics, Suntec, Singapore, ISBN 1-932432-61-2, pp. 33-36, 2009.