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| Title | Universal Stanford Dependencies: a Cross-Linguistic Typology |
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| Authors | Marie-Catherine De Marneffe, Timothy Dozat, Natalia Silveira, Katri Haverinen, Filip Ginter, Joakim Nivre and Christopher D. Manning |
| Abstract | Revisiting the now de facto standard Stanford dependency representation, we propose an improved taxonomy to capture grammatical relations across languages, including morphologically rich ones. We suggest a two-layered taxonomy: a set of broadly attested universal grammatical relations, to which language-specific relations can be added. We emphasize the lexicalist stance of the Stanford Dependencies, which leads to a particular, partially new treatment of compounding, prepositions, and morphology. We show how existing dependency schemes for several languages map onto the universal taxonomy proposed here and close with consideration of practical implications of dependency representation choices for NLP applications, in particular parsing. |
| Topics | Parsing, Multilinguality |
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Universal Stanford Dependencies: a Cross-Linguistic Typology |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{DEMARNEFFE14.1062, author = {Marie-Catherine De Marneffe and Timothy Dozat and Natalia Silveira and Katri Haverinen and Filip Ginter and Joakim Nivre and Christopher D. Manning}, title = {Universal Stanford Dependencies: a Cross-Linguistic Typology}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)}, year = {2014}, month = {may}, date = {26-31}, address = {Reykjavik, Iceland}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Hrafn Loftsson and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {978-2-9517408-8-4}, language = {english} } |