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| Challenge: | UD Japanese resources are built on automatic conversion from several treebanks. |
| Approach: | They propose to port the word delimitation, POS, and syntactic relations of existing treebanks to UD Japanese . they discuss the issues of the UD scheme found through porting of the Japanese language . |
| Outcome: | The proposed UD Japanese resources are based on automatic conversion from treebanks. |
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