Claudia Villanueva


2018

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Toward Universal Dependencies for Shipibo-Konibo
Alonso Vasquez | Renzo Ego Aguirre | Candy Angulo | John Miller | Claudia Villanueva | Željko Agić | Roberto Zariquiey | Arturo Oncevay
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2018)

We present an initial version of the Universal Dependencies (UD) treebank for Shipibo-Konibo, the first South American, Amazonian, Panoan and Peruvian language with a resource built under UD. We describe the linguistic aspects of how the tagset was defined and the treebank was annotated; in addition we present our specific treatment of linguistic units called clitics. Although the treebank is still under development, it allowed us to perform a typological comparison against Spanish, the predominant language in Peru, and dependency syntax parsing experiments in both monolingual and cross-lingual approaches.