Development of a Universal Dependencies treebank for Welsh

Johannes Heinecke, Francis M. Tyers

Abstract:

This paper describes the development of
the first syntactically-annotated corpus of
Welsh within the Universal Dependencies
(UD) project. We explain how the corpus
was prepared, and some Welsh-specific
constructions that require attention. The
treebank currently contains 10 756 tokens.
An 10-fold cross evaluation shows that
results of both, tagging and dependency
parsing, are similar to other treebanks of
comparable size, notably the other Celtic
language treebanks within the UD project.