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  <Title>Sinica Treebank: Design Criteria, Annotation Guidelines, and On-line Interface</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper describes the design criteria and annotation guidelines of Sinica Treebank. The three design criteria are: Maximal Resource Sharing,</Paragraph>
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Minimal Structural Complexity, and
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      <Paragraph position="0"> Optimal Semantic Information. One of the important design decisions following these criteria is the encoding of thematic role information. An on-line interface facilitating empirical studies of Chinese phrase structure is also described.</Paragraph>
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