@inproceedings{corbetta-etal-2025-afraid,
    title = "{\guillemotleft}Are you Afraid of Ghosts?{\guillemotright} A Proposal for Busting Predicate Ellipsis in {U}niversal {D}ependencies",
    author = "Corbetta, Claudia  and
      Iurescia, Federica  and
      Passarotti, Marco Carlo",
    editor = {Jablotschkin, Sarah  and
      K{\"u}bler, Sandra  and
      Zinsmeister, Heike},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 23rd International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT, SyntaxFest 2025)",
    month = aug,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Ljubljana, Slovenia",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2025.tlt-1.6/",
    pages = "52--63",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-291-6",
    abstract = "This paper addresses the representation of ellipsis in dependency syntax, proposing both a theoretical and a practical workflow for its analysis and annotation in treebanks, following the state-of-the-art Universal Dependencies framework. We discuss the challenges of annotating ellipsis, with a focus on predicate ellipsis and its representation in dependency treebanks, and emphasize the importance of accounting for such phenomena for syntactic analysis and machine learning applications. We present a case study based on the Italian-Old treebank, demonstrating the applicability of the proposed workflows and invite the community to participate in this initiative with their own languages."
}