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====================================================

CoNLL-2014 Shared Task: Grammatical Error Correction

Description of Preprocessed NUCLE Data Set

7 April 2014  Version 3.2
====================================================


1. General
==========

This README file describes a preprocessed version of the NUS Corpus of
Learner English (NUCLE). For information about NUCLE, please refer to
the NUCLE README file.  For information about the CoNLL-2014 shared
task, please refer to the shared task website.

The preprocessed data set, following earlier CoNLL shared tasks,
provides syntactic information for the raw texts in NUCLE.  For each
sentence, the part of speech tags, dependency parse tree, and
constituent parse tree are encoded in a column format.

In NUCLE, annotations are made at the character level, which means
both the start offset and the end offset of an error annotation are
character positions in the corresponding paragraph.  In this
preprocessed version, annotations are made at the token level, which
means the start offset and the end offset are indexes of tokens in the
corresponding sentence.

This README is updated on 4 August 2014.


2. Files
========

Two files are to be generated:

  conll14st-preprocessed.conll
  conll14st-preprocessed.conll.ann

conll14st-preprocessed.conll contains the preprocessed data in
CoNLL-style column format. This file is not included in this
distribution due to the size.

conll14st-preprocessed.conll.ann contains token-level annotations.


3. Preprocessing systems
========================

The NUCLE corpus is preprocessed with the following steps to generate
this preprocessed data set:

  a). sentence splitting, using nltk punkt [1].
      Note: the version used to generate the files is before the fixing
            of issue 514
  b). word tokenization, using nltk word_tokenize [1].
  c). POS tags, dependency parse trees, and constituent parse trees,
      using the Stanford parser [2].
  d). projecting character-level annotation to token-level annotation.

Results from (a-c) are in conll14st-preprocessed.conll. The projected
annotations (d) are included in conll14st-preprocessed.conll.ann.


4. Data format
==============

Here is an example sentence in conll14st-preprocessed.conll:

	NID	PID	SID TOKENID	TOKEN	POS	DPHEAD	DPREL	SYNT

	829     1       2       0       This    DT      1       det     (ROOT(S(NP*
	829     1       2       1       will    NN      7       nsubj   *)
	829     1       2       2       ,       ,       -       -       *
	829     1       2       3       if      IN      4       mark    (SBAR*
	829     1       2       4       not     RB      7       dep     (FRAG*
	829     1       2       5       already RB      4       dep     (ADVP*)))
	829     1       2       6       ,       ,       -       -       *
	829     1       2       7       caused  VBD     -1      root    (VP*
	829     1       2       8       problems        NNS     7       dobj    (NP*)
	829     1       2       9       as      IN      11      mark    (SBAR*
	829     1       2       10      there   EX      11      expl    (S(NP*)
	829     1       2       11      are     VBP     7       advcl   (VP*
	829     1       2       12      very    RB      13      advmod  (NP(NP(ADJP*
	829     1       2       13      limited VBN     14      amod    *)
	829     1       2       14      spaces  NNS     11      nsubj   *)
	829     1       2       15      for     IN      14      prep    (PP*
	829     1       2       16      us      PRP     15      pobj    (NP*)))))))
	829     1       2       17      .       .       -       -       *))


The columns represent the following:

	Column	Type		Description

	0	NID		Document id of the sentence, equals to "nid" in NUCLE.
	1	PID		Paragraph index of the sentence, according to the paragraphing in NUCLE (<p></p>).
	2	SID		Sentence index in paragraph, each sentence has its own index starting from 0.
	3	TOKENID		Token index in the sentence, starting from 0.
	4	TOKEN		Word/token.
	5	POS		Part of speech tag.
	6	DPHEAD		Index of parent in dependency tree.
	7	DPREL		Dependency relation with parent.
	8	SYNT		Constituent tree. The constituent tree can be recovered as follows:
				(a) Replacing "*" in this column with a string "(pos word)",
				    where pos is the value of column 5, word is the value of column 4.  
				(b) Concatenating all the strings in (a) gives 
				    the bracketing structure of the constituent parse tree. 

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Here is the corresponding token-level annotation for the above
sentence (in conll14st-preprocessed.conll.ann):

	<ANNOTATION>
	<MISTAKE nid="829" pid="1" sid="2" start_token="7" end_token="8">
	<TYPE>Vform</TYPE>
	<CORRECTION>cause</CORRECTION>
	</MISTAKE>
	<MISTAKE nid="829" pid="1" sid="2" start_token="14" end_token="15">
	<TYPE>Nn</TYPE>
	<CORRECTION>space</CORRECTION>
	</MISTAKE>
	<MISTAKE nid="829" pid="1" sid="2" start_token="11" end_token="12">
	<TYPE>SVA</TYPE>
	<CORRECTION>is</CORRECTION>
	</MISTAKE>
	</ANNOTATION>

The tags represent the following:
	
	Tag			Description

	<ANNOTATION>		Each <ANNOTATION></ANNOTATION> section identifies annotations for one sentence.

	<MISTAKE>		Identifies an error annotation, with the following attributes:
				nid:  Document id of the sentence, equals to the NID column (column 0) in .conll file
				pid:  Paragraph index of the sentence, equals to the PID column in .conll file
				sid:  Sentence index in paragraph, equals to the SID column in .conll file
				start_token: The token index (TOKENID column in .conll file) which is the start of annotation. 
				end_token:  The token index which is the end of the annotation. 

	<TYPE>			Error tag (refer to the NUCLE corpus README file for the complete list of error tags).

	<CORRECTION>		Correction, replacing tokens in the interval [start_token, end_token) with the 
                                correction string will result in a corrected sentence.

------------------------------------------------------------------------

How to map a sentence to its annotation?

In conll14st-preprocessed.conll, different sentences are separated by
empty lines, and <ANNOTATION></ANNOTATION> sections are also separated
by empty lines in conll14st-preprocessed.conll.ann.  A sentence maps
to one <ANNOTATION></ANNOTATION> section, with the same nid, pid, and
sid.  If a sentence has no annotation, there is no
<ANNOTATION></ANNOTATION> section for it.  The order of the
<ANNOTATION></ANNOTATION> sections is the same as the order of
sentences in the preprocesed file.


5. Updates included in version 2.1
==================================

The error categories Wcip and Rloc have been mapped to Prep, Wci,
ArtOrDet, and Rloc-, to facilitate the detection and correction of
preposition errors and article/determiner errors. See the NUCLE README
file for details on how the mapping was done.

50 overlapping error annotations involving the 5 error tags ArtOrDet,
Prep, Nn, Vform, and SVA have been modified such that they do not
overlap in the revised error annotations.

Some minor mistakes in error annotations have been corrected.

This was done for the CoNLL-2013 Shared Task.


6. Updates included in version 3.0
==================================

The overlapping error annotations of the remaining error tags have
been modified such that they do not overlap in the revised error
annotations.

Some minor mistakes in error annotations have been corrected.


7. Updates included in version 3.1
==================================

Duplicate error annotations, each having the same span and correction
string but different error type, are removed to keep only one of
those.

Previously, annotations spanning to the end of the paragraph was
detected as cross-sentence and therefore not included in the
preprocessed format. This has been fixed such that they are included
in the preprocessed format.

Some minor mistakes in error annotations have been corrected.


8. Updates included in version 3.2
==================================

The preprocessing script has been fixed such that gold edits that
insert empty string are not included in the token-level gold edit and
scorer answer files.


9. References
=============

[1] Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, and Edward Loper. 2009. Natural Language
Processing with Python. O'Reilly Media Inc. http://nltk.org/

[2] Dan Klein and Christopher D. Manning. 2003. Accurate Unlexicalized
Parsing.  Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics, pp. 423-430.  
Stanford parser version 2.0.1.
http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/stanford-parser-2012-03-09.tgz