Kutay Acar


2026

The UniDive 2025 Morphosyntactic Parsing (MSP) shared task introduces a representation unifying dependency structure, morphological features, and unrealized arguments. Unlike Universal Dependencies, MSP encodes abstract nodes (e.g., dropped subjects, implicit pronouns) as labels projected onto content words, which standard UD parsers cannot model. We present a multilingual, typology-aware joint system integrating word-type prediction, content-only parsing, morphological tagging, and an abstract-node component within a single architecture. The model combines the baseline joint framework with typology-conditioned adapters and progressive weighting for abstract supervision. On the MSP test set, our model outperforms the leading submission by 3.23 percentage points in MSLAS, 3.35 in LAS, and 1.78 in FEATS macro F1, demonstrating the effectiveness of typology-sensitive multi-task learning in MSP.

2025

This paper presents a system for the UniDive Morphosyntactic Parsing (MSP) Shared Task, where it ranked second overall among participating teams. The task introduces a morphosyntactic representation that jointly models syntactic dependencies and morphological features by treating content-bearing elements as graph nodes and encoding functional elements as feature annotations, posing challenges for conventional parsers and necessitating more flexible, linguistically informed approaches. The proposed system combines a typology-aware, multitask parser with a multilingual content/function classifier to handle structural variance across languages. The architecture uses adapter modules and language embeddings to encode typological information. Evaluations across 9 typologically varied languages confirm that the system can accurately replicate both universal and language-specific morphosyntactic patterns.
This paper details the findings of the 2025 UniDive shared task on multilingual morphosyntactic parsing. It introduces a new representation in which morphology and syntax are modelled jointly to form dependency trees of contentful elements, each characterized by features determined by grammatical words and morphemes. This schema allows bypassing the theoretical debate over the definition of “words” and it encourages development of parsers for typologically diverse languages. The data for the task, spanning 9 languages, was annotated based on existing Universal Dependencies (UD) treebanks that were adapted to the new format. We accompany the data with a new metric, MSLAS, that combines syntactic LAS with F1 over grammatical features. The task received two submissions, which together with three baselines give a detailed view on the ability of multi-task encoder models to cope with the task at hand. The best performing system, UM, achieved 78.7 MSLAS macro-averaged over all languages, improving by 31.4 points over the few-shot prompting baseline.

2023

In morphologically rich languages, words consist of morphemes containing deeper information in morphology, and thus such languages may necessitate the use of morpheme-level representations as well as word representations. This study introduces a neural multilingual end-to-end coreference resolution system by incorporating morphological information in transformer-based word embeddings on the baseline model. This proposed model participated in the Sixth Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CRAC 2023). Including morphological information explicitly into the coreference resolution improves the performance, especially in morphologically rich languages (e.g., Catalan, Hungarian, and Turkish). The introduced model outperforms the baseline system by 2.57 percentage points on average by obtaining 59.53% CoNLL F-score.