Universal Dependencies v1: A Multilingual Treebank Collection
Joakim Nivre, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Filip Ginter, Yoav Goldberg, Jan Hajič, Christopher D. Manning, Ryan McDonald, Slav Petrov, Sampo Pyysalo, Natalia Pujol Pacheco Silveira, Reut Tsarfaty, Daniel Zeman · 2016
Cross-linguistically consistent annotation is necessary for sound comparative evaluation and cross-lingual learning experiments.It is also useful for multilingual system development and comparative linguistic studies.Universal Dependencies is an open community effort to create cross-linguistically consistent treebank annotation for many languages within a dependency-based lexicalist framework.In this paper, we describe v1 of the universal guidelines, the underlying design principles, and the currently available treebanks for 33 languages.