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==Universal Description of Morphology and Syntax of Natural Languages==
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            Universal Description of Morphology and Syntax of Natural Languages

                                                           Daniel Zeman


          Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague



Abstract: I will present Universal Dependencies, an international community project and a collection of morphosyntactically
annotated data sets (“treebanks”) for more than 100 languages. The collection is an invaluable resource for various linguistic
studies, ranging from grammatical constructions within one language to language typology, documentation of endangered
languages, and historical evolution of language. From the engineering perspective, UD treebanks serve as training data for
automatic parsers that can be subsequently used to analyze previously unseen text. The parsed output is an intermediate
representation between the input text and its underlying meaning. It is helpful in foreign language learning as well as for automatic
extraction of semantic relations (answers to “who did what to whom”). I will thus discuss these semantic aspects in the last part of
my talk; in particular, I will look at extensions of UD that have been proposed and that focus more on deep-syntactic and semantic
relations expressed in natural language.




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