1. Publication Title: Chinese Proposition Bank 3.0 (CPB3.0)

2. Authors

	Nianwen Xue, Xiaopeng Bai, Jill Lu, Hui Wang, Jennifer Zhang, Lei Carter, Carol He, Suwen Ma, Martha Palmer, Meiyu Chang, Vicky Lai, Zixin Jiang,
        Hua Zhong

	Contact: Nianwen Xue <xuen@brandeis.edu>

3. Data type: text

4. Data sources:
   Annotation is done on the Chinese Treebank 7.0, which has the following
   sources:
 
   Newswire: [0001-0325, 0400-0454, 0500-0540, 0600-0885, 0900-0931, 4000-4050]
   Magazine articles: [0590-0596, 1001-1151]
   Broadcast news:[2000-3145, 4051-4111]
   Broadcast conversations: [4112-4197]
   Weblogs: [4198-4411]

5. Project: Chinese Proposition Bank (http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~clp/ctb/cpb)

6. Applications: natural language processing, parsing,
inforamtion extraction, machine translation, linguistic analysis

7. Language: Chinese

8. Special license: None

9. Grant numbers and funding agencies:
   This work is supported by DOD via grant MDA904-02-C-0412, by the NSF ITR
   via grant 130-1303-4-541984-XXXX-2000-1070,and by DARPA GALE via grant HR0011-06-0022.

10. Copyright.

11. Description of the corpus structure and data attributes:
    This release contains the predicate-argument annotation of 173,206 verb
    instances and 14,525 noun instances. The annotation of nouns are limited to nominalizations that have 
    a corresponding verb. The general annotation guidelines and the lexical
    guidelines (called frame files) for each verbal and nominal predicates are
    also included in this release.


12. Quality control

All the annotations in this release are the result of double blind annotation
followed by adjudication of differences.