%0 Conference Proceedings %T SUD or Surface-Syntactic Universal Dependencies: An annotation scheme near-isomorphic to UD %A Gerdes, Kim %A Guillaume, Bruno %A Kahane, Sylvain %A Perrier, Guy %Y de Marneffe, Marie-Catherine %Y Lynn, Teresa %Y Schuster, Sebastian %S Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2018) %D 2018 %8 November %I Association for Computational Linguistics %C Brussels, Belgium %F gerdes-etal-2018-sud %X This article proposes a surface-syntactic annotation scheme called SUD that is near-isomorphic to the Universal Dependencies (UD) annotation scheme while following distributional criteria for defining the dependency tree structure and the naming of the syntactic functions. Rule-based graph transformation grammars allow for a bi-directional transformation of UD into SUD. The back-and-forth transformation can serve as an error-mining tool to assure the intra-language and inter-language coherence of the UD treebanks. %R 10.18653/v1/W18-6008 %U https://aclanthology.org/W18-6008 %U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W18-6008 %P 66-74