Creating a Parallel Icelandic Dependency Treebank from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies

Hildur Jónsdóttir, Anton Karl Ingason


Abstract
Making the low-resource language, Icelandic, accessible and usable in Language Technology is a work in progress and is supported by the Icelandic government. Creating resources and suitable training data (e.g., a dependency treebank) is a fundamental part of that work. We describe work on a parallel Icelandic dependency treebank based on Universal Dependencies (UD). This is important because it is the first parallel treebank resource for the language and since several other languages already have a resource based on the same text. Two Icelandic treebanks based on phrase-structure grammar have been built and ongoing work aims to convert them to UD. Previously, limited work has been done on dependency grammar for Icelandic. The current project aims to ameliorate this situation by creating a small dependency treebank from scratch. Creating a treebank is a laborious task so the process was implemented in an accessible manner using freely available tools and resources. The parallel data in the UD project was chosen as a source because this would furthermore give us the first parallel treebank for Icelandic. The Icelandic parallel UD corpus will be published as part of UD version 2.6.
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2020.lrec-1.357
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Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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May
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2020
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Marseille, France
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European Language Resources Association
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2924–2931
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English
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Hildur Jónsdóttir and Anton Karl Ingason. 2020. Creating a Parallel Icelandic Dependency Treebank from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 2924–2931, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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