Christian Chiarcos, Kathrin Donandt, Maxim Ionov, Monika Rind-Pawlowski, Hasmik Sargsian, Jesse Wichers Schreur, Frank Abromeit, Christian Fäth
| Challenge: | Caucasus region is famed for its rich and diverse arrays of languages and language families . authors describe efforts to improve the coverage of Universal Morphologies for languages of the region . |
| Approach: | They propose to improve the coverage of Universal Morphologies for Caucasus languages . they propose to complement the Universal Dependencies which focus on morphosyntax and syntax. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves the coverage of languages of the Caucasus region . the proposed framework criticizes the UniMorph TSV format for its limited expressiveness . |
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