DOI: 10.35111/n86k-dc19
title: BOLT English Translation Treebank - Chinese Discussion Forum

description: <h3>Introduction</h3><br>
<p>BOLT English Translation Treebank - Chinese Discussion Forum was developed by the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) and consists of web discussion forum data translated from Chinese to English and annotated for part-of-speech and syntactic structure.</p><br>
<p>The DARPA <a href="https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/collaborations/current-projects/bolt">BOLT</a> (Broad Operational Language Translation) program developed machine translation and information retrieval for less formal genres, focusing particularly on user-generated content. LDC supported the BOLT program by collecting informal data sources -- discussion forums, text messaging and chat -- in Chinese, Egyptian Arabic and English. The collected data was translated and annotated for various tasks including word alignment, treebanking, propbanking and co-reference.</p><br>
<p>Part-of-speech and treebank annotation conformed to Penn Treebank II style, incorporating changes to those guidelines that were developed under the GALE (Global Autonomous Language Exploitation) program. Those changes primarily concerned the tokenization of hyphenated words, part-of-speech and tree changes necessitated by the tokenization changes, and updates to the syntactic annotation to comply with updated annotation guidelines. Supplementary guidelines for English treebanks and web text are included with this release.</p><br>
<h3>Data</h3><br>
<p>The source data is Chinese discussion forum web text collected by LDC in 2011 and 2012, translated into English and released in <a href="../../../LDC2017T05">BOLT Chinese Discussion Forum Parallel Training Data (LDC2017T05)</a>. A subset of the translated text -- 148 files representing 147,432 tokens -- was selected for the treebank and annotated for word-level tokenization, part-of-speech and syntactic structure. Only the translated English text is included in the source data for this release.</p><br>
<p>The unannotated Chinese source data was released as <a href="../../../LDC2016T05">BOLT Chinese Discussion Forums (LDC2016T05)</a>, the Chinese-English word alignment data was released as <a href="../../../LDC2016T19">BOLT Chinese-English Word Alignment and Tagging (LDC2016T19)</a> and the Chinese Treebank of the Chinese data was released as part of <a href="../../../LDC2016T13">Chinese Treebank 9.0 (LDC2016T13)</a>.</p><br>
<p>Data is presented in a variety of UTF-8 encoded text formats, specifically, plain text, XML, and Penn Treebank. See the included documentation for more information about specific formats.</p><br>
<h3>Acknowledgement</h3><br>
<p>This material is based upon work supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under Contract No. HR0011-11-C-0145. The content does not necessarily reflect the position or the policy of the Government, and no official endorsement should be inferred.</p><br>
<h3>Samples</h3><br>
<p>Please view the following samples:</p><br>
<ul><br>
<li><a href="desc/addenda/LDC2020T09.eng.su.txt">Source Translated Text Sample</a></li><br>
<li><a href="desc/addenda/LDC2020T09.eng.xml">AG XML Sample</a></li><br>
<li><a href="desc/addenda/LDC2020T09.eng.xml.tree">Treebank Sample</a></li><br>
<li><a href="desc/addenda/LDC2020T09.eng.xml-altremoved.tree">Treebank Sample (no translation alternatives)</a></li><br>
</ul><br>
<h3>Updates</h3><br>
<p>None at this time.</p></br>
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