@InProceedings{sade-seker-tsarfaty:2018:UDW2018,
  author    = {Sade, Shoval  and  Seker, Amit  and  Tsarfaty, Reut},
  title     = {The Hebrew Universal Dependency Treebank: Past Present and Future},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2018)},
  month     = {November},
  year      = {2018},
  address   = {Brussels, Belgium},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {133--143},
  abstract  = {The Hebrew treebank (HTB), consisting of 6221 morpho-syntactically annotated newspaper sentences, has been the only resource for training and validating Hebrew statistical parsers for almost two decades now. During these decades, the HTB has gone through a trajectory of automatic and semi-automatic conversions, until arriving at its current UDv2 form. In this work we set out to manually validate the UDv2 version and, accordingly, we apply scheme changes to bring the UD HTB into the same theoretical ground as the rest of UD. Our experimental results show that improving the linguistic coherence and internal consistency of the UD HTB has indeed led to improved syntactic parsing performance. At the same time, there is more to be done at the points of intersection with other linguistic processing layers, in particular, at the interface of UD with external morphological and lexical resources.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W18-6016}
}