Morphosyntactic Annotation in Universal Dependencies for Old Czech

Zeman, Daniel; Kosek, Pavel; Březina, Martin; Pergler, Jiří

doi:10.2478/jazcas-2023-0039

Abstract

We describe the first steps in preparation of a treebank of 14^th-century Czech in the framework of Universal Dependencies. The Dresden and Olomouc versions of the Gospel of Matthew have been selected for this pilot study, which also involves modification of the annotation guidelines for phenomena that occur in Old Czech but not in Modern Czech. We describe some of these modifications in the paper. In addition, we provide some interesting observations about applicability of a Modern Czech parser to the Old Czech data.

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Morphosyntactic Annotation in Universal Dependencies for Old Czech

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