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  <Title>B B B Automation of Treebank Annotation</Title>
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5 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The techniques and automatic tools described in this paper are designed to support annotation proper, online/offline consistency checking and the comparison of independent annotations of the same sentences. Most of the techniques employ stochastic processing methods, which guarantee high accuracy and robustness.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The bootstrapping approach adopted in our project makes the degree of automation a function of available training data. Easier processing tasks are automated first. Experience gained and data annotated at a lower level allow to increase the level of automation step by step. The current size of our corpus (approx. 6300 sentences) enables reliable automatic assignment of category and function labels as well as simple structures.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Future work will be concerned with developing automatic annotation methods handling complex structures, which should ultimately lead to the development of a parser for predicate-argument trees containing crossing branches.</Paragraph>
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