Universal Dependencies v1: A Multilingual Treebank Collection
Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2016 · paper · Computational linguistics
Describes version 1 of Universal Dependencies, a community effort to give treebanks consistent grammatical annotation across languages. It sets out the guidelines and design principles and surveys the treebanks available for 33 languages.
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5 minor (typos and the like; most checked by the judge only)
Wording Section 4 says unsegmented tokens range up to "well over 1.5 million tokens", but the largest value in Table 4 is Czech at 1503738.
- p. 6 Section 4, paragraph 1
well over 1.5 million tokens
- p. 5 Table 4, Czech row
87913 1503738 1506490
Judge's note: The Table 4 crop confirms Czech 1503738 tokens as the maximum. That is only about 0.25% above 1.5 million, so 'well over' is loose wording.
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Typo Introduction, p.1: "idiosyncracies among typologically different languages" should be spelled "idiosyncrasies".
- p. 1 Introduction, paragraph 2
idiosyncracies among typolog-
Judge's note: Crop C001-a shows the spelling 'idiosyncracies' on the page. It is a common misspelling of 'idiosyncrasies', not a regional variant.
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Typo The same French example is glossed "(However, the girls love chocolate desserts)" in the Section 3 text but "(Translation: However, girls love chocolate desserts.)" in the Figure 2 caption.
- p. 2 Figure 2 caption
(Translation: However, girls love chocolate desserts.)
- p. 2 Section 3, last paragraph
(However, the girls love chocolate desserts)
- p. 2 Figure 2 caption
However, girls love chocolate desserts
- p. 2 Figure 2 caption
However, girls love chocolate desserts.
Judge's note: The page 2 crops confirm both renderings. A generic French 'les filles' can legitimately be rendered as 'girls', so the meaning is unchanged. This is only an inconsistency between two glosses of one sentence, and either form is defensible.
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Typo Figure 3, token 3 'les' has FEATS "Definite=Det|Number=Plur", but Figure 2 gives Definite=Def for the same token, as do rows 6 and 9 of Figure 3.
- p. 6 Figure 3, row ID 3
Definite=Det|Number=Plur
- p. 2 Figure 2, features of first 'les'
Definite=Def
- p. 6 Figure 3, row 6
Definite=Def|Number=Plur
Judge's note: The Figure 3 crop on page 6 clearly reads 'Definite=Det' in row 3 and 'Definite=Def' in rows 6 and 9. The page 2 crop of Figure 2 shows Definite=Def under the first 'les'. The text says Figure 3 shows the sentence from Figure 2, so the value should be 'Def'. This is a typo in the example.
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Typo The reference reads "Bootstrapping a Swedish treeebank using cross-corpus harmonization"; 'treeebank' should be 'treebank'.
- p. 8 References, Nivre and Megyesi (2007)
treeebank using cross-corpus harmonization
- p. 8 References, Nivre and Megyesi (2007)
Bootstrapping a Swedish treeebank using cross-corpus harmonization
Judge's note: The page 8 crop shows 'treeebank' with three e's in the Nivre and Megyesi (2007) entry. This is a spelling error.
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