A New Latin Treebank for Universal Dependencies: Charters between Ancient Latin and Romance Languages

Flavio Massimiliano Cecchini, Timo Korkiakangas, Marco Passarotti

Abstract
The present work introduces a new Latin treebank that follows the Universal Dependencies (UD) annotation standard. The treebank is obtained from the automated conversion of the Late Latin Charter Treebank 2 (LLCT2), originally in the Prague Dependency Treebank (PDT) style. As this treebank consists of Early Medieval legal documents, its language variety differs considerably from both the Classical and Medieval learned varieties prevalent in the other currently available UD Latin treebanks. Consequently, besides significant phenomena from the perspective of diachronic linguistics, this treebank also poses several challenging technical issues for the current and future syntactic annotation of Latin in the UD framework. Some of the most relevant cases are discussed in depth, with comparisons between the original PDT and the resulting UD annotations. Additionally, an overview of the UD-style structure of the treebank is given, and some diachronic aspects of the transition from Latin to Romance languages are highlighted.
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2020.lrec-1.117
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Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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May
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2020
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Marseille, France
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association
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933–942
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English
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.117
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Flavio Massimiliano Cecchini, Timo Korkiakangas, and Marco Passarotti. 2020. A New Latin Treebank for Universal Dependencies: Charters between Ancient Latin and Romance Languages. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 933–942, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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