Second Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2018). Proceedings of the Workshop

Assessing the Impact of Incremental Error Detection and Correction. A Case Study on the Italian Universal Dependency Treebank Chiara Alzetta, Felice Dell’Orletta, Simonetta Montemagni, Maria Simi and Giulia Venturi . . . . . 1 Using Universal Dependencies in cross-linguistic complexity research Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Çagrı Çöltekin, Katharina Ehret, Kilu von Prince, Daniel Ross, Bill ˘ Thompson, Chunxiao Yan, Vera Demberg, Gary Lupyan, Taraka Rama and Christian Bentz . . . . . . . . . . 8 Expletives in Universal Dependency Treebanks Gosse Bouma, Jan Hajic, Dag Haug, Joakim Nivre, Per Erik Solberg and Lilja Øvrelid . . . . . . . . 18 Challenges in Converting the Index Thomisticus Treebank into Universal Dependencies Flavio Massimiliano Cecchini, Marco Passarotti, Paola Marongiu and Daniel Zeman . . . . . . . . . . 27 Er ... well, it matters, right? On the role of data representations in spoken language dependency parsing Kaja Dobrovoljc and Matej Martinc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Mind the Gap: Data Enrichment in Dependency Parsing of Elliptical Constructions Kira Droganova, Filip Ginter, Jenna Kanerva and Daniel Zeman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Integration complexity and the order of cosisters William Dyer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55 SUD or Surface-Syntactic Universal Dependencies: An annotation scheme near-isomorphic to UD Kim Gerdes, Bruno Guillaume, Sylvain Kahane and Guy Perrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Coordinate Structures in Universal Dependencies for Head-final Languages Hiroshi Kanayama, Na-Rae Han, Masayuki Asahara, Jena D. Hwang, Yusuke Miyao, Jinho D. Choi and Yuji Matsumoto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Investigating NP-Chunking with Universal Dependencies for English Ophélie Lacroix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Marrying Universal Dependencies and Universal Morphology Arya D. McCarthy, Miikka Silfverberg, Ryan Cotterell, Mans Hulden and David Yarowsky . . . . 91 Enhancing Universal Dependency Treebanks: A Case Study Joakim Nivre, Paola Marongiu, Filip Ginter, Jenna Kanerva, Simonetta Montemagni, Sebastian Schuster and Maria Simi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Enhancing Universal Dependencies for Korean Youngbin Noh, Jiyoon Han, Tae Hwan Oh and Hansaem Kim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 UD-Japanese BCCWJ: Universal Dependencies Annotation for the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese Mai Omura and Masayuki Asahara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 The First Komi-Zyrian Universal Dependencies Treebanks Niko Partanen, Rogier Blokland, KyungTae Lim, Thierry Poibeau and Michael Rießler . . . . . . . 126 The Hebrew Universal Dependency Treebank: Past Present and Future Shoval Sade, Amit Seker and Reut Tsarfaty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 vii Multi-source synthetic treebank creation for improved cross-lingual dependency parsing Francis Tyers, Mariya Sheyanova, Aleksandra Martynova, Pavel Stepachev and Konstantin Vinogorodskiy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Toward Universal Dependencies for Shipibo-Konibo Alonso Vásquez, Renzo Ego Aguirre, Candy Angulo, John Miller, Claudia Villanueva, Željko Agic,´ Roberto Zariquiey and Arturo Oncevay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Transition-based Parsing with Lighter Feed-Forward Networks David Vilares and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 Extended and Enhanced Polish Dependency Bank in Universal Dependencies Format Alina Wróblewska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Approximate Dynamic Oracle for Dependency Parsing with Reinforcement Learning Xiang Yu, Ngoc Thang Vu and Jonas Kuhn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .183 The Coptic Universal Dependency Treebank Amir Zeldes and Mitchell Abrams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .192