| Challenge: | Animacy is a feature found in nouns such as 'gender', 'number' and 'case' that improves parser accuracy. |
| Approach: | They propose an annotation scheme and parser results for the animacy feature in Russian and Arabic, morphologically rich languages, using the universal dependency framework. |
| Outcome: | The proposed scheme and parser improve on the animacy feature in Russian and Arabic, and the results show that the feature is more accurate than other features found in nouns, namely, 'gender', , and 'number' |
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