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treebank

/ˈtɹiː.bæŋk/

treebank noun: a database (corpus) of sentences which are annotated with syntactic information, often in the form of a tree.

Noun

treebank (plural treebanks)

  1. A database (corpus) of sentences which are annotated with syntactic information, often in the form of a tree.
    • If one wants to use a treebank for linguistic investigation, […].2003, Diana Santos, “Timber! Issues in treebank building and use”, in Nuno J. Mamede, Jorge Baptista, Isabel Trancoso, Maria das Gracas Volpe Nunes, editors, Computational Processing of the...
    • A treebank is a text corpus with exhaustive syntactic annotation, typically applied on top of lemmatization, PoS tagging and morphological annotation.2020, “Introduction”, in Hanne Martine Eckhoff, Silvia Luraghi, Marco Passarotti, editors, Diachronic Treebanks for Historical Linguistics, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 2

Verb

treebank (third-person singular simple present treebanks, present participle treebanking, simple past and past participle treebanked)

  1. To parse and annotate sentences according to a treebank.

Forms of treebank

Noun
pluraltreebanks
alternative formtree bank
Verb
third-person singular presenttreebanks
present participletreebanking
past participletreebanked
pasttreebanked

Origin of treebank

From tree + bank, coined by British linguist Geoffrey Leech in analogy with seed bank, blood bank, etc.

Words that rhyme with treebank

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Questions about treebank

What does treebank mean?
Treebank means a database (corpus) of sentences which are annotated with syntactic information, often in the form of a tree.
What part of speech is treebank?
Treebank can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce treebank?
Treebank is pronounced /ˈtɹiː.bæŋk/.
What is the plural of treebank?
The plural of treebank is treebanks.

Words near treebank in the dictionary

  1. tree-top
  2. tree-topper
  3. tree-toppers
  4. tree-tops
  5. treeable
  6. treebank
  7. treebanked
  8. treebanking
  9. treebanks
  10. treebark
  11. treebeard

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Adapted from Wiktionary: treebank (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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