Building a Treebank for the Book of Ezra in the Old Georgian Oshki Bible

Chia-Wei Lin; Diego Luinetti

doi:10.5334/johd.559

Building a Treebank for the Book of Ezra in the Old Georgian Oshki Bible

Journal of Open Humanities Data

Volume 12 (2026): Issue 1

By: Chia-Wei Lin and Diego Luinetti

Open Access

|Jul 2026

Abstract

We present a Universal Dependencies (UD) annotated dataset of the Book of Ezra from the Old Georgian Oshki Bible, based on the TITUS edition. Our semi-automated workflow leverages transfer learning from Modern Georgian (UD_Georgian-GNC) and few-shot prompting of LLMs, followed by manual corrections by human linguists. We discuss the challenges of creating UD-conformed guidelines tailored for Old Georgian’s unique linguistic structure and the limitations and errors of LLM-based annotation. This work aims to establish a gold standard for Old Georgian UD, laying the groundwork for future morphosyntactic analysis of Old Georgian.

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