Abstract
Beginning with the discovery of the cuneiform writing system in 1835, there have been numerous grammars published illustrating the complexities of the Sumerian language. However, the one thing they have in common is their omission of dependency rules for syntax in Sumerian linguistics. For this reason we are working toward a better understanding of Sumerian syntax, by means of dependency-grammar in the Universal Dependencies (UD) framework. Therefore, in this study we articulate the methods and engineering techniques that can address the hardships in annotating dependency relationships in the Sumerian texts in transliteration from the Electronic Text Corpora of Sumerian (ETCSUX). Our code can be found at https://github.com/ancient-world-citation-analysis/UD-ETCSUX.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.ml4al-1.19
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Machine Learning for Ancient Languages (ML4AL 2024)
- Month:
- August
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- Hybrid in Bangkok, Thailand and online
- Editors:
- John Pavlopoulos, Thea Sommerschield, Yannis Assael, Shai Gordin, Kyunghyun Cho, Marco Passarotti, Rachele Sprugnoli, Yudong Liu, Bin Li, Adam Anderson
- Venues:
- ML4AL | WS
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 186–191
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.19
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Kenan Jiang and Adam Anderson. 2024. UD-ETCSUX: Toward a Better Understanding of Sumerian Syntax. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Machine Learning for Ancient Languages (ML4AL 2024), pages 186–191, Hybrid in Bangkok, Thailand and online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- UD-ETCSUX: Toward a Better Understanding of Sumerian Syntax (Jiang & Anderson, ML4AL-WS 2024)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2024.ml4al-1.19.pdf