@InProceedings{garcia-gamallo:2017:K17-3,
  author    = {Garcia, Marcos  and  Gamallo, Pablo},
  title     = {A rule-based system for cross-lingual parsing of Romance languages with Universal Dependencies},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the CoNLL 2017 Shared Task: Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies},
  month     = {August},
  year      = {2017},
  address   = {Vancouver, Canada},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {274--282},
  abstract  = {This article describes MetaRomance, a rule-based cross-lingual parser for
	Romance languages submitted to CoNLL 2017 Shared Task: Multilingual Parsing
	from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies. The system is an almost delexicalized
	parser which does not need training data to analyze Romance languages. It
	contains linguistically motivated rules based on PoS-tag patterns. The rules
	included in MetaRomance were developed in about 12 hours by one expert with no
	prior knowledge in Universal Dependencies, and can be easily extended using a
	transparent formalism. In this paper we compare the performance of MetaRomance
	with other supervised systems participating in the competition, paying special
	attention to the parsing of different treebanks of the same language. We also
	compare our system with a delexicalized parser for Romance languages, and take
	advantage of the harmonized annotation of Universal Dependencies to propose a
	language ranking based on the syntactic distance each variety has from Romance
	languages.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/K17-3029}
}