Universal Dependencies and Morphology for Hungarian - and on the Price of Universality

Vincze, Veronika and Simkó, Katalin Ilona and Szántó, Zsolt and Farkas, Richárd (2017) Universal Dependencies and Morphology for Hungarian - and on the Price of Universality. In: Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 1, Long Papers.

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Abstract

In this paper, we present how the principles of universal dependencies and morphology have been adapted to Hungarian. We report the most challenging grammatical phenomena and our solutions to those. On the basis of the adapted guidelines, we have converted and manually corrected 1,800 sentences from the Szeged Treebank to universal dependency format. We also introduce experiments on this manually annotated corpus for evaluating automatic conversion and the added value of language-specific, i.e. non-universal, annotations. Our results reveal that converting to universal dependencies is not necessarily trivial, moreover, using language-specific morphological features may have an impact on overall performance.

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