Large-scale evidence of dependency length minimization in 37 languages

R Futrell, K Mahowald… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Explaining the variation between human languages and the constraints on that variation is a
core goal of linguistics. In the last 20 y, it has been claimed that many striking universals of …

Curras: an annotated corpus for the Palestinian Arabic dialect

M Jarrar, N Habash, F Alrimawi, D Akra… - Language Resources …, 2017 - Springer
In this article we present Curras, the first morphologically annotated corpus of the
Palestinian Arabic dialect. Palestinian Arabic is one of the many primarily spoken dialects of …

gaBERT--an Irish Language Model

J Barry, J Wagner, L Cassidy, A Cowap, T Lynn… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
The BERT family of neural language models have become highly popular due to their ability
to provide sequences of text with rich context-sensitive token encodings which are able to …

[PDF][PDF] Cross-lingual transfer parsing for low-resourced languages: An Irish case study

T Lynn, J Foster, M Dras, L Tounsi - Proceedings of the First Celtic …, 2014 - aclanthology.org
We present a study of cross-lingual direct transfer parsing for the Irish language. Firstly we
discuss mapping of the annotation scheme of the Irish Dependency Treebank to a universal …

[PDF][PDF] Towards a free/open-source universal-dependency treebank for kazakh

FM Tyers, J Washington - 3rd International Conference on Turkic …, 2015 - academia.edu
This article describes the first steps towards a free/open-source dependency treebank for
Kazakh based on universal dependency (UD) annotation standards. The treebank contains …

Irish dependency treebanking and parsing

T Lynn - 2016 - doras.dcu.ie
Despite enjoying the status of an official EU language, Irish is considered a minority
language. As with most minority languages, it is alow-density'language, which means it …

[PDF][PDF] Working with a small dataset-semi-supervised dependency parsing for Irish

T Lynn, J Foster, M Dras - Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on …, 2013 - aclanthology.org
We present a number of semi-supervised parsing experiments on the Irish language carried
out using a small seed set of manually parsed trees and a larger, yet still relatively small, set …

[PDF][PDF] Active learning and the Irish treebank

T Lynn, J Foster, M Dras… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - aclanthology.org
We report on our ongoing work in developing the Irish Dependency Treebank, describe the
results of two Inter-annotator Agreement (IAA) studies, demonstrate improvements in …

[PDF][PDF] Universal Dependencies for Urdu Noisy Text

A Baig, MU Rahman, AS Shah, S Abbasi - International Journal, 2021 - academia.edu
In this paper, the process of creating a Dependency Treebank for tweets in Urdu, a
morphologically rich and less-resourced language is described. The 500 Urdu tweets …

Investigating multilingual approaches for parsing universal dependencies

J Barry - 2022 - doras.dcu.ie
Multilingual dependency parsing encapsulates any attempt to parse multiple languages. It
can involve parsing multiple languages in isolation (poly-monolingual), leveraging training …