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title = "{\guillemotleft}Are you Afraid of Ghosts?{\guillemotright} A Proposal for Busting Predicate Ellipsis in {U}niversal {D}ependencies",
author = "Corbetta, Claudia and
Iurescia, Federica and
Passarotti, Marco Carlo",
editor = {Jablotschkin, Sarah and
K{\"u}bler, Sandra and
Zinsmeister, Heike},
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 23rd International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT, SyntaxFest 2025)",
month = aug,
year = "2025",
address = "Ljubljana, Slovenia",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.tlt-1.6/",
pages = "52--63",
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abstract = "This paper addresses the representation of ellipsis in dependency syntax, proposing both a theoretical and a practical workflow for its analysis and annotation in treebanks, following the state-of-the-art Universal Dependencies framework. We discuss the challenges of annotating ellipsis, with a focus on predicate ellipsis and its representation in dependency treebanks, and emphasize the importance of accounting for such phenomena for syntactic analysis and machine learning applications. We present a case study based on the Italian-Old treebank, demonstrating the applicability of the proposed workflows and invite the community to participate in this initiative with their own languages."
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%T \guillemotleftAre you Afraid of Ghosts?\guillemotright A Proposal for Busting Predicate Ellipsis in Universal Dependencies
%A Corbetta, Claudia
%A Iurescia, Federica
%A Passarotti, Marco Carlo
%Y Jablotschkin, Sarah
%Y Kübler, Sandra
%Y Zinsmeister, Heike
%S Proceedings of the 23rd International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT, SyntaxFest 2025)
%D 2025
%8 August
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%C Ljubljana, Slovenia
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%F corbetta-etal-2025-afraid
%X This paper addresses the representation of ellipsis in dependency syntax, proposing both a theoretical and a practical workflow for its analysis and annotation in treebanks, following the state-of-the-art Universal Dependencies framework. We discuss the challenges of annotating ellipsis, with a focus on predicate ellipsis and its representation in dependency treebanks, and emphasize the importance of accounting for such phenomena for syntactic analysis and machine learning applications. We present a case study based on the Italian-Old treebank, demonstrating the applicability of the proposed workflows and invite the community to participate in this initiative with their own languages.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2025.tlt-1.6/
%P 52-63
Markdown (Informal)
[«Are you Afraid of Ghosts?» A Proposal for Busting Predicate Ellipsis in Universal Dependencies](https://aclanthology.org/2025.tlt-1.6/) (Corbetta et al., TLT-SyntaxFest 2025)
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