Character-level Annotation for Chinese Surface-Syntactic Universal Dependencies

Chuanming Dong (1) , Yixuan Li , Kim Gerdes (2, 3)

1 Inalco - Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales
2 LPP - LPP - Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie - UMR 7018
3 ALMAnaCH - Automatic Language Modelling and ANAlysis & Computational Humanities

This paper presents a new schema to annotate Chinese Treebanks on the character level. The original Universal Dependencies (UD) and Surface-Syntactic Universal Dependencies (SUD) projects provide token-level resources with rich morphosyntactic language details. However, without any commonly accepted word definition for Chinese, the dependency parsing always faces the dilemma of word segmentation. Therefore we present a character-level annotation schema integrated into the existing Universal Dependencies schema as an extension.

Domaines: Linguistique; Informatique et langage [cs.CL]; Machine Learning [stat.ML]

Chuanming Dong, Yixuan Li, Kim Gerdes. Character-level Annotation for Chinese Surface-Syntactic Universal Dependencies. Depling 2019 - International Conference on Dependency Linguistics, Aug 2019, Paris, France. ⟨hal-02270535⟩