Universal Dependencies v2: An Evergrowing Multilingual Treebank Collection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2004.10643v1
• Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 15:38:18 GMT
• Title: Universal Dependencies v2: An Evergrowing Multilingual Treebank Collection
• Authors: Joakim Nivre, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Filip Ginter, Jan Haji\v{c}, Christopher D. Manning, Sampo Pyysalo, Sebastian Schuster, Francis Tyers, Daniel Zeman
• Abstract summary: Universal Dependencies is an open community effort to create cross-linguistically consistent treebank annotation for many languages. We describe version 2 of the guidelines (UD v2), discuss the major changes from UD v1 to UD v2, and give an overview of the currently available treebanks for 90 languages.
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• Abstract: Universal Dependencies is an open community effort to create cross-linguistically consistent treebank annotation for many languages within a dependency-based lexicalist framework. The annotation consists in a linguistically motivated word segmentation; a morphological layer comprising lemmas, universal part-of-speech tags, and standardized morphological features; and a syntactic layer focusing on syntactic relations between predicates, arguments and modifiers. In this paper, we describe version 2 of the guidelines (UD v2), discuss the major changes from UD v1 to UD v2, and give an overview of the currently available treebanks for 90 languages.

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