Talbanken05 (Version 1.0)
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Talbanken05 is a modernized version of Talbanken76, a Swedish treebank of 
roughly 300,000 words, constructed at Lund University in the 1970s. 
The treebank comes with no guarantee but is freely available for research 
and educational purposes as long as proper credit is given for the work 
done to produce the material (both in Lund and in Växjö).

The treebank consists of a written language part and a spoken language 
part of roughly equal size. The written language part in turn consists of 
two sections, the so-called professional prose section (P), with data 
from textbooks, brochures, newspapers, etc., and a collection of high 
school students' essays (G). The spoken language part also has two 
sections, interviews (IB) and conversations and debates (SD). Altogether, 
the corpus contains close to 300,000 running tokens.

This distribution contains the entire treebank (divided into sections 
P, G, IB and SD) in four versions:

  MAMBA: Original syntactic and lexical annotation, (original text encoding)
  FPS:   Flat phrase structure annotation (TIGER-XML encoding)
  DPS:   Deepened phrase structure annotation (TIGER-XML encoding)
  Dep:   Dependency structure annotation (Malt-XML encoding)

More documentation can be found at the home page of Talbanken05:
http://www.msi.vxu.se/users/nivre/research/Talbanken05.html


Bibliography
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Talbanken76 was originally published as:

  Jan Einarsson: Talbankens skriftspråkskonkordans (1976)
  Jan Einarsson: Talbankens talspråkskonkordans (1976)

The data were collected in several projects at Lund University in the 1970s
and the material is described in several publications:

  Ulf Teleman: Manual för grammatisk beskrivning av talad och skriven 
    svenska (MAMBA) (1974)
  Margareta Westman: Bruksprosa (1974)
  Nils Jörgensen: Meningsbyggnaden i talad svenska (1976)
  Tor G Hultman och Margareta Westman: Gymnasistsvenska (1977)
  Jan Einarsson: Talad och skriven svenska (1978)

Teleman (1974) describes the analysis principles, while the other books 
apply these principles to different authentic materials. 

The conversion of Talbanken76 to Talbanken05 is described in:

  Jens Nilsson, Johan Hall and Joakim Nivre: MAMBA Meets TIGER: 
    Reconstructing a Swedish Treebank from Antiquity. I Proceedings 
    of the NODALIDA Special Session on Treebanks (2005)