@article{mikulova-etal-2026-meet,
    title = "Meet {UD}{\_}{C}zech-{PDTC}: A Large and Genre-Rich Treebank in {U}niversal {D}ependencies",
    author = "Mikulov{\'a}, Marie  and
      {\v{S}}t{\v{e}}p{\'a}nkov{\'a}, Barbora  and
      Zeman, Daniel  and
      {\v{S}}t{\v{e}}p{\'a}nek, Jan  and
      Straka, Milan  and
      Haji{\v{c}}, Jan",
    editor = "Piperidis, Stelios  and
      Bel, N{\'u}ria  and
      van den Heuvel, Henk  and
      Ide, Nancy  and
      Krek, Simon  and
      Toral, Antonio",
    journal = "International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation",
    volume = "main",
    month = may,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Palma de Mallorca, Spain",
    publisher = "ELRA Language Resource Association",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-lrec/2026.lrec-main.909/",
    pages = "11606--11619",
    abstract = "Czech has been part of Universal Dependencies since its first release in 2015. It has also been one of the best represented languages, with the Prague Dependency Treebank being order of magnitude larger than most other UD treebanks. More recently, three other datasets from the Prague family were added and the annotations thoroughly revisited, forming the ``Prague Dependency Treebank-Consolidated'' (PDT-C). In comparison to the original PDT, PDT-C is more than twice as large, but it is also much more diverse in terms of genres and domains. In this paper, we describe the conversion of the new resource to Universal Dependencies. While the two annotation schemes are relatively similar at the first sight, there are numerous small differences in topology of the dependency structures and in granularity of the POS and relation type inventories. We demonstrate a selection of such differences on examples, discuss the diverging motivations, as well as ways to overcome the differences during conversion. We argue that while PDT is less ``universal'' and more tightly bound to one language, its multi-layer annotation is rich and provides all information needed for basic UD trees, and much more."
}