Abstract
Universal Dependencies is an initiative to develop cross-linguistically consistent grammatical annotation for many languages, with the goal of facilitating multilingual parser development, cross-lingual learning and parsing research from a language typology perspective. It assumes a dependency-based approach to syntax and a lexicalist approach to morphology, which together entail that the fundamental units of grammatical annotation are words. Words have properties captured by morphological annotation and enter into relations captured by syntactic annotation. Moreover, priority is given to relations between lexical content words, as opposed to grammatical function words. In this position paper, I discuss how this approach allows us to capture similarities and differences across typologically diverse languages.- Anthology ID:
- W16-3806
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Workshop on Grammar and Lexicon: interactions and interfaces (GramLex)
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2016
- Address:
- Osaka, Japan
- Editors:
- Eva Hajičová, Igor Boguslavsky
- Venue:
- GramLex
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
- Note:
- Pages:
- 38–40
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W16-3806
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Joakim Nivre. 2016. Universal Dependencies: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective on Grammar and Lexicon. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Grammar and Lexicon: interactions and interfaces (GramLex), pages 38–40, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
- Cite (Informal):
- Universal Dependencies: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective on Grammar and Lexicon (Nivre, GramLex 2016)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/W16-3806.pdf
- Data
- Universal Dependencies