Svetlana Berikashvili
2026
Pontic Greek in the Caucasus: an online corpus
Svetlana Berikashvili | Stavros Skopeteas
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Dialects in NLP — A Resource Perspective
Svetlana Berikashvili | Stavros Skopeteas
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Dialects in NLP — A Resource Perspective
This paper presents a multi-media corpus of Pontic Greek as spoken by Pontic Greek speakers in the Caucasus (Georgia). The corpus covers three major stages reflecting different sociolinguistic settings: (a) Ponitc Greek in small rural communities in Georgia (original settlements); (b) internal migration to urban centers (within Georgia), (c) external migration (to Greece). The dataset comprises 373 audio recordings (total duration 7h 26m; total word count: 43.073). The open-access resource includes audio files (wav) and annotations (xml). Annotations provide orthographical transcription, morphemic transcription and morpheme-by-morpheme and sentence-by-sentence translations in English (Toolbox); transcriptions are time-aligned with the audio files (ELAN). This collection is intended to linguists working on dialectology and language contact, as well as people with broader interests about the history and practices of this community. Pontic Greek in the Caucasus offers a unique opportunity to investigate contact between Greek and another Indo-European language (Russian) as well as two Non-Indo-European languages (Georgian, Turkish).
2024
Building a Universal Dependencies Treebank for Georgian
Irina Lobzhanidze | Erekle Magradze | Svetlana Berikashvili | Anzor Gozalishvili | Tamar Jalaghonia
Proceedings of the 22nd Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2024)
Irina Lobzhanidze | Erekle Magradze | Svetlana Berikashvili | Anzor Gozalishvili | Tamar Jalaghonia
Proceedings of the 22nd Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2024)
This paper presents the design and development of the Georgian Syntactic Treebank within the Universal Dependencies (UD) framework, addressing the unique morphosyntactic challenges ofGeorgian, a Kartvelian language. We describe the methodology for selecting andannotating 3,013 sentences from Wiki, mapping existing tagsets to the UD scheme, and converting data into the CoNLL-U format. The paper also details the training of a UDPipe model using this preliminary treebank.