Universal Dependencies: Principles and Tools
                                      Daniel Zeman
                        Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics
                            Charles University, Czech Republic
                            Faculty of Mathematics and Physics




                                           Abstract

Universal Dependencies is an international community project and a collection of morphosyn-
tactically 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 evo-
lution of language. In the tutorial, I will first quickly show the main principles of UD, then I
will present the actual data and various tools that are available to work with it: parsers, batch
processors, search engines and viewers.



Biography. Daniel Zeman is a senior researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Formal and Ap-
plied Linguistics (ÚFAL), Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague.
His research interests range from natural language parsing and morphology to low-resource lan-
guage processing and linguistic typology. He is one of the co-founders and main coordinators
of the Universal Dependencies project.