Peter Dirix
University of Leuven, Centre for Computational Linguistics, Belgium
Liesbeth Augustinus
University of Leuven, Centre for Computational Linguistics, Belgium / FWO-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Daniel van Niekerk
North West University, Centre for Text Technology, South Africa
Frank Van Eynde
University of Leuven, Centre for Computational Linguistics, Belgium
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Published in: Proceedings of the NoDaLiDa 2017 Workshop on Universal Dependencies, 22 May, Gothenburg Sweden
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 135:5, p. 38-47
NEALT Proceedings Series 31:5, p. 38-47
Published: 2017-05-29
ISBN: 978-91-7685-501-0
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
The Universal Dependencies (UD) project aims to develop a consistent annotation framework for treebanks across many languages. In this paper we present the UD scheme for Afrikaans and we describe the conversion of the AfriBooms treebank to this new format. We will compare the conversion to UD to the conversion of related syntactic structures in typologically similar languages.
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