Leveraging UD data for Downstream Semantic Tasks: Reflexive Clitics Across Languages

Verginica Mititelu, Adriana Silvina Pagano, Daniel Zeman, Federica Gamba, Patricia Chiril, Diego Alves, Cristina Bosco, Irina Lobzhanidze, Petya Osenova, Kaja Dobrovoljc, Daša Farkaš, Elena Irimia, Ioana-Madalina Silai

Keywords: reflexive clitics, treebank annotation, CoNLL-U, UMR, syntax-semantics interface

Working Group: WG1: Corpus annotation, WG3: Multilingual and cross-lingual language technology, WG4: Quantifying and promoting diversity

Abstract: This paper revisits the annotation of reflexive clitics from a cross-linguistic computational perspective. Based on evidence from CoNLL-U treebanks, it examines how reflexive markers are represented in argumental and non-argumental uses, and how these annotation choices shape corpus retrieval, cross-linguistic comparison, and semantically oriented analysis, particularly in relation to UMR. The paper argues that more explicit and consistent annotation of reflexive constructions can better support syntax-to-semantics workflows and inform future treebank design.

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Submission Number: 55