1. Publication Title: Chinese Proposition Bank 2.0 (CPB2.0)

2. Authors

	Nianwen Xue <Nianwen.Xue@colorado.edu>, 
	Martha Palmer <Martha.Palmer@colorado.edu>, 
	Meiyu Chang <Meiyu.Chang@colorado.edu> 
	Vicky Lai <Vicky.Lai@colorado.edu>
	Zixin Jiang <jiangzixin@comcast.net>,

	Contact: Nianwen.Xue@colorado.edu

3. Data type: text

4. Data sources:
   Annotation is done on the Chinese Treebank, which are from the following
   sources:
 
   Xinhua newswire [0001-0325, 0400-0454, 0600-0885, 0900-0931]
   Hong Kong news: [0500-5540]
   Sinorama: [0590-0596, 1001-1151]
   ACE broadcast news:[2000-3145]

5. Project: Chinese Proposition Bank (http://verbs.colorado.edu/chinese/cpb)

6. Applications: natural language processing, parsing,
inforamtion extraction, machine translation, linguistic analysis

7. Language: Chinese

8. Special license: None

9. Grant numbers and funding agencies:
   This work is supported by DOD via grant MDA904-02-C-0412 and by the NSF ITR
   via grant 130-1303-4-541984-XXXX-2000-1070.

10. Copyright.

11. Description of the corpus structure and data attributes:
    This release contains the predicate-argument annotation of 81,009 verb
    instances (11,171 unique verbs) and 14,525 noun instances (1,421 unique
    nouns). The annotation of nouns are limited to nominalizations that have 
    a corresponding verb. The general annotation guidelines and the lexical
    guidelines (called frame files) for each verbal and nominal predicates are
    also included in this release.


12. Quality control

All the annotations in this release are the result of double blind annotation
followed by adjudication of differences.