Abstract
This paper presents the Coptic Universal Dependency Treebank, the first dependency treebank within the Egyptian subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic languages. We discuss the composition of the corpus, challenges in adapting the UD annotation scheme to existing conventions for annotating Coptic, and evaluate inter-annotator agreement on UD annotation for the language. Some specific constructions are taken as a starting point for discussing several more general UD annotation guidelines, in particular for appositions, ambiguous passivization, incorporation and object-doubling.- Anthology ID:
- W18-6022
- 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:
- 192–201
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W18-6022
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/W18-6022
- Cite (ACL):
- Amir Zeldes and Mitchell Abrams. 2018. The Coptic Universal Dependency Treebank. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2018), pages 192–201, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- The Coptic Universal Dependency Treebank (Zeldes & Abrams, UDW 2018)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ml4al-ingestion/W18-6022.pdf