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2018 EMNLP EMNLP 2018

The Coptic Universal Dependency Treebank

Abstract

AbstractThis paper presents the Coptic Universal Dependency Treebank, the first dependency treebank within the Egyptian subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic languages. We discuss the composition of the corpus, challenges in adapting the UD annotation scheme to existing conventions for annotating Coptic, and evaluate inter-annotator agreement on UD annotation for the language. Some specific constructions are taken as a starting point for discussing several more general UD annotation guidelines, in particular for appositions, ambiguous passivization, incorporation and object-doubling.

🧭 Keyword Pioneer — coptic language
🐝 Cross-Pollinator — Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computer Vision, Data Science & Analytics, Deep Learning, Healthcare & Medicine, Interdisciplinary, Knowledge & Reasoning, Machine Learning, Mathematics & Optimization, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning, Security & Privacy, Speech & Audio

Authors

Amir Zeldes , Mitchell Abrams

Topics

Natural Language Processing > Understanding > Parsing Natural Language Processing > Resources & Methods > Multilingual NLP Natural Language Processing > Resources & Methods > Text Representation Natural Language Processing > Applications > Text Processing

Keywords

universal dependencies dependency parsing inter-annotator agreement syntactic annotation annotation guideline coptic language universal dependency treebank
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