Challenges in Converting the Index Thomisticus Treebank into Universal Dependencies
Flavio Massimiliano Cecchini, Marco Passarotti, Paola Marongiu, Daniel Zeman
Abstract
This paper describes the changes applied to the original process used to convert the Index Thomisticus Treebank, a corpus including texts in Medieval Latin by Thomas Aquinas, into the annotation style of Universal Dependencies. The changes are made both to harmonise the Universal Dependencies version of the Index Thomisticus Treebank with the two other available Latin treebanks and to fix errors and inconsistencies resulting from the original process. The paper details the treatment of different issues in PoS tagging, lemmatisation and assignment of dependency relations. Finally, it assesses the quality of the new conversion process by providing an evaluation against a gold standard.- Anthology ID:
- W18-6004
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2018)
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2018
- Address:
- Brussels, Belgium
- Editors:
- Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Teresa Lynn, Sebastian Schuster
- Venue:
- UDW
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 27–36
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W18-6004
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/W18-6004
- Cite (ACL):
- Flavio Massimiliano Cecchini, Marco Passarotti, Paola Marongiu, and Daniel Zeman. 2018. Challenges in Converting the Index Thomisticus Treebank into Universal Dependencies. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2018), pages 27–36, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Challenges in Converting the Index Thomisticus Treebank into Universal Dependencies (Cecchini et al., UDW 2018)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/landing_page/W18-6004.pdf
- Data
- Universal Dependencies