Typology-aware Multilingual Morphosyntactic Parsing with Functional Node Filtering

Kutay Acar, Gulsen Eryigit


Abstract
This paper presents a system for the UniDive Morphosyntactic Parsing (MSP) Shared Task, where it ranked second overall among participating teams. The task introduces a morphosyntactic representation that jointly models syntactic dependencies and morphological features by treating content-bearing elements as graph nodes and encoding functional elements as feature annotations, posing challenges for conventional parsers and necessitating more flexible, linguistically informed approaches. The proposed system combines a typology-aware, multitask parser with a multilingual content/function classifier to handle structural variance across languages. The architecture uses adapter modules and language embeddings to encode typological information. Evaluations across 9 typologically varied languages confirm that the system can accurately replicate both universal and language-specific morphosyntactic patterns.
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2025.unidive-1.3
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Proceedings of The UniDive 2025 Shared Task on Multilingual Morpho-Syntactic Parsing
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August
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2025
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Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Omer Goldman, Leonie Weissweiler, Reut Tsarfaty
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UNIDIVE | WS | SyntaxFest
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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27–33
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Kutay Acar and Gulsen Eryigit. 2025. Typology-aware Multilingual Morphosyntactic Parsing with Functional Node Filtering. In Proceedings of The UniDive 2025 Shared Task on Multilingual Morpho-Syntactic Parsing, pages 27–33, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Typology-aware Multilingual Morphosyntactic Parsing with Functional Node Filtering (Acar & Eryigit, UNIDIVE-SyntaxFest 2025)
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