SUD or Surface-Syntactic Universal Dependencies: An annotation scheme near-isomorphic to UD

Kim Gerdes (1) , Bruno Guillaume (2) , Sylvain Kahane (3) , Guy Perrier (2)

1 LPP - LPP - Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie - UMR 7018
2 SEMAGRAMME - Semantic Analysis of Natural Language
3 MoDyCo - Modèles, Dynamiques, Corpus

This article proposes a surface-syntactic annotation scheme called SUD that is near-isomorphic to the Universal Dependencies (UD) annotation scheme while following distributional criteria for defining the dependency tree structure and the naming of the syntactic functions. Rule-based graph transformation grammars allow for a bi-directional transformation of UD into SUD. The back-and-forth transformation can serve as an error-mining tool to assure the intra-language and inter-language coherence of the UD treebanks.

Domaines: Informatique et langage [cs.CL]

Kim Gerdes, Bruno Guillaume, Sylvain Kahane, Guy Perrier. SUD or Surface-Syntactic Universal Dependencies: An annotation scheme near-isomorphic to UD. Universal Dependencies Workshop 2018, Nov 2018, Brussels, Belgium. ⟨10.18653/v1/W18-6008⟩. ⟨hal-01930614⟩