UD_French-FQB
Treebank card from UD release 2.18: metadata and texts come from UD_French-FQB/README.md; size is counted by streaming the .conllu files and checked against the release stats.xml. Generated by tools/treebanks build; do not edit by hand. Papers: Papers: UD_French-FQB; seeds: seeds/; converter: convert.md.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| UD name | UD_French-FQB |
| Language | French (fr) |
| Family | IE |
| Treebank code | fr_fqb |
| UD page | universaldependencies.org/treebanks/fr fqb/index.html |
| License | LGPL-LR |
| Genres | nonfiction, news |
| Text in data | yes |
| Parallel | no |
| In UD since | UD v2.4 |
| Authors | Djamé Seddah; Marie Candito; Bruno Guillaume |
| Contact | djame.seddah@gmail.com |
| Development | outside the UD repo (elsewhere): fixes go to the source or the converter |
Annotation layers
| Layer | Origin |
|---|---|
| Lemmas | converted from manual |
| UPOS | converted from manual |
| XPOS | manual native |
| Features | converted from manual |
| Relations | converted from manual |
UD scale: manual native — annotated by hand directly in UD; converted from manual — converted from manual annotation in another scheme; converted with corrections — converted and partly corrected by hand; automatic with corrections — automatic, with partial manual corrections; automatic — automatic; not available — the layer is absent.
Size
| Split | Sentences | Tokens | Words | Multiword tokens | Empty nodes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| test | 2 289 | 23 344 | 23 896 | 552 | 0 |
| total | 2 289 | 23 344 | 23 896 | 552 | 0 |
Tokens are surface tokens (Spanish vámonos is one), words are syntactic words (vamos + nos); multiword tokens are those split into several words; empty nodes are the N.M nodes of the enhanced graph. Splits train, dev are absent from the release.
Summary
The corpus UD_French-FQB is an automatic conversion of the French QuestionBank v1, a corpus entirely made of questions.
Introduction
The original French QuestionBank is described in Hard Time Parsing Questions: Building a QuestionBank for French.. It was converted to UD with the conversion system described in the chapter 3 of the book Application of Graph Rewriting to Natural Language Processing and available on Inria Gitlab.
The original annotation scheme versions (phrase-structure, surface dependencies following the FTB scheme, Deep syntax annotations following the Deep Sequoia scheme are available at the following URL.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/treebanks/fr/fqb/