Joint Annotation of Morphology and Syntax in Dependency Treebanks (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Syntactic treebanks have been in development since the 1970s . they are now available for a vast array of languages from across the globe . |
| Approach: | They propose new formats to annotate syntactic and morphological relations in a dependency treebank using distributional criteria for the choice of the head of any combination. |
| Outcome: | The proposed formats are compatible with the UD schema for syntactic treebanks. |
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