Sarwat Qureshi


2025

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Universal Dependencies for Sindhi
John Bauer | Sakiina Shah | Muhammad Shaheer | Mir Afza Ahmed Talpur | Zubair Sanjrani | Sarwat Qureshi | Shafi Pirzada | Christopher D. Manning | Mutee U Rahman
Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW, SyntaxFest 2025)

Sindhi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in Pakistan and India by about 40 million people. Despite this extensive use, it is a low resource language for NLP tasks, with few datasets or pretrained embeddings available. In this work, we explore linguistic challenges for annotating Sindhi in the UD paradigm, such as language-specific analysis of adpositions and verb forms. We use this analysis to present a newly annotated dependency treebank for Universal Dependencies, along with pretrained embeddings and an annotation pipeline specifically for Sindhi annotation.