however these are often based on a specific text type or genre, . financial newspaper text (the Penn-II Treebank (Marcus et al., 1993)). This can limit the applicability of grammatical resources induced from treebanks in that such resources underperform when used on a different type of text or for a specific task. In this paper we present work on creating QuestionBank, a treebank of parse-annotated questions, which can be used as a supplementary training resource to allow parsers to accurately parse questions (as well as other text). .
