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<p>Recently, the language-specific morphosyntactic annotation of <italic>InterCorp</italic>, a large multilingual parallel corpus, has been replaced by the language-uniform morphosyntactic and syntactic annotation following the guidelines of the Universal Dependencies project. Because the corpus is used predominantly by human users via a token-based concordancer, the CONLL-U format produced by the <italic>UDP ipe</italic> parser has been extended by attributes such as lemma of the token’s syntactic head or morphosyntactic categories of the content verb’s auxiliary. We conclude that despite some theoretical and practical issues, the new annotation is a promising solution to the issue of mutually incompatible tagsets within a single corpus.</p>
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Recently, the language-specific morphosyntactic annotation of InterCorp, a large multilingual parallel corpus, has been replaced by the language-uniform morphosyntactic and syntactic annotation following the guidelines of the Universal Dependencies project. Because the corpus is used predominantly by human users via a token-based concordancer, the CONLL-U format produced by the UDP ipe parser has been extended by attributes such as lemma of the token’s syntactic head or morphosyntactic categories of the content verb’s auxiliary. We conclude that despite some theoretical and practical issues, the new annotation is a promising solution to the issue of mutually incompatible tagsets within a single corpus.

The <italic>Intercorp</italic> Parallel Corpus with a Uniform Annotation for All Languages

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

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The  Parallel Corpus with a Uniform Annotation for All Languages

Recently, the language-specific morphosyntactic annotation of InterCorp, a large multilingual parallel corpus, has been replaced by the language-uniform...

The Intercorp Parallel Corpus with a Uniform Annotation for All Languages

Publicado en línea: 25 dic 2023

Páginas: 254 - 265

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2023-0043

Palabras clave
parallel corpus, Universal Dependencies, multilinguality, syntactic annotation, language-universal categories

© 2023 Alexandr Rosen, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

The Intercorp Parallel Corpus with a Uniform Annotation for All Languages

Publicado en línea: 25 dic 2023

Páginas: 254 - 265

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2023-0043

Palabras claveparallel corpus, Universal Dependencies, multilinguality, syntactic annotation, language-universal categories

© 2023 Alexandr Rosen, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Palabras clave
parallel corpus, Universal Dependencies, multilinguality, syntactic annotation, language-universal categories