The Treebank of Vedic Sanskrit

Oliver Hellwig, Salvatore Scarlata, Elia Ackermann, Paul Widmer


Abstract
This paper introduces the first treebank of Vedic Sanskrit, a morphologically rich ancient Indian language that is of central importance for linguistic and historical research. The selection of the more than 3,700 sentences contained in this treebank reflects the development of metrical and prose texts over a period of 600 years. We discuss how these sentences are annotated in the Universal Dependencies scheme and which syntactic constructions required special attention. In addition, we describe a syntactic labeler based on neural networks that supports the initial annotation of the treebank, and whose evaluation can be helpful for setting up a full syntactic parser of Vedic Sanskrit.
Anthology ID:
2020.lrec-1.632
Volume:
Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Month:
May
Year:
2020
Address:
Marseille, France
Editors:
Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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Publisher:
European Language Resources Association
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Pages:
5137–5146
Language:
English
URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.632
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Oliver Hellwig, Salvatore Scarlata, Elia Ackermann, and Paul Widmer. 2020. The Treebank of Vedic Sanskrit. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 5137–5146, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
Cite (Informal):
The Treebank of Vedic Sanskrit (Hellwig et al., LREC 2020)
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