@inproceedings{taguchi-chiang-2023-introducing,
    title = "Introducing Morphology in {U}niversal {D}ependencies {J}apanese",
    author = "Taguchi, Chihiro  and
      Chiang, David",
    editor = {Grobol, Lo{\"i}c  and
      Tyers, Francis},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW, GURT/SyntaxFest 2023)",
    month = mar,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Washington, D.C.",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/2023.udw-1.8/",
    pages = "65--72",
    abstract = "This paper discusses the need for including morphological features in Japanese Universal Dependencies (UD). In the current version (v2.11) of the Japanese UD treebanks, sentences are tokenized at the morpheme level, and almost no morphological feature annotation is used. However, Japanese is not an isolating language that lacks morphological inflection but is an agglutinative language. Given this situation, we introduce a tentative scheme for retokenization and morphological feature annotation for Japanese UD. Then, we measure and compare the morphological complexity of Japanese with other languages to demonstrate that the proposed tokenizations show similarities to synthetic languages reflecting the linguistic typology."
}