The UD-NewsCrawl Treebank: Reflections and Challenges from a Large-scale Tagalog Syntactic Annotation Project (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | UD-NewsCrawl is the largest Tagalog treebank to date, with 15.6k trees manually annotated according to the Universal Dependencies framework. |
| Approach: | They propose to use UD-NewsCrawl to annotate Tagalog trees using the Universal Dependencies framework. |
| Outcome: | The proposed treebanks are based on the Universal Dependencies framework and have 15.6k trees annotated manually. |
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