Annotating Second Language in Universal Dependencies: a Review of Current Practices and Directions for Harmonized Guidelines

Arianna Masciolini, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Maria Irena Szawerna, Elena Volodina


Abstract
Universal Dependencies (UD) is gaining popularity as an annotation standard for second language (L2) material. Grammatical errors and other interlanguage phenomena, however, pose significant challenges that official guidelines only address in part. In this paper, we give an overview of current annotation practices and provide some suggestions for harmonizing guidelines for learner corpora.
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2025.udw-1.17
Volume:
Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW, SyntaxFest 2025)
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August
Year:
2025
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Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Gosse Bomma, Çağrı Çöltekin
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UDW | WS | SyntaxFest
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SIGPARSE
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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153–163
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Arianna Masciolini, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Maria Irena Szawerna, and Elena Volodina. 2025. Annotating Second Language in Universal Dependencies: a Review of Current Practices and Directions for Harmonized Guidelines. In Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW, SyntaxFest 2025), pages 153–163, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Annotating Second Language in Universal Dependencies: a Review of Current Practices and Directions for Harmonized Guidelines (Masciolini et al., UDW-SyntaxFest 2025)
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