@inproceedings{jiang-anderson-2024-ud,
    title = "{UD}-{ETCSUX}: Toward a Better Understanding of {S}umerian Syntax",
    author = "Jiang, Kenan  and
      Anderson, Adam",
    editor = "Pavlopoulos, John  and
      Sommerschield, Thea  and
      Assael, Yannis  and
      Gordin, Shai  and
      Cho, Kyunghyun  and
      Passarotti, Marco  and
      Sprugnoli, Rachele  and
      Liu, Yudong  and
      Li, Bin  and
      Anderson, Adam",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Machine Learning for Ancient Languages (ML4AL 2024)",
    month = aug,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Hybrid in Bangkok, Thailand and online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2024.ml4al-1.19/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.ml4al-1.19",
    pages = "186--191",
    abstract = "Beginning with the discovery of the cuneiform writing system in 1835, there have been numerous grammars published illustrating the complexities of the Sumerian language. However, the one thing they have in common is their omission of dependency rules for syntax in Sumerian linguistics. For this reason we are working toward a better understanding of Sumerian syntax, by means of dependency-grammar in the Universal Dependencies (UD) framework. Therefore, in this study we articulate the methods and engineering techniques that can address the hardships in annotating dependency relationships in the Sumerian texts in transliteration from the Electronic Text Corpora of Sumerian (ETCSUX). Our code can be found at https://github.com/ancient-world-citation-analysis/UD-ETCSUX."
}