Kira Tulchynska


2025

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Universal Dependencies for Suansu
Jessica K. Ivani | Kira Tulchynska
Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW, SyntaxFest 2025)

This contribution presents the Naga-Suansu Universal Dependencies (UD) treebank, the first resource of this kind for Suansu, an endangered and underdocumented Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Northeast India. This treebank follows the UD annotation framework. We describe the corpus composition, data sources, and annotation process, outlining the general structure of the treebank. In addition, we highlight morphosyntactic challenges where Suansu grammar does not fit neatly into the UD annotation schema and propose adaptations to better capture its structural properties. As the first Tibeto-Burman language included in the UD project, the Naga-Suansu treebank serves several purposes: it contributes to the documentation and preservation of endangered languages, enables the understanding of cross-linguistic variation, and supports future research efforts in refining UD annotation practices for South and Southeast Asian languages.

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Universal Dependencies Treebank for Khoekhoe (KDT)
Kira Tulchynska | Sylvanus Job | Alena Witzlack-Makarevich
Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW, SyntaxFest 2025)

This paper reports on the development of the first dependency treebank for Khoekhoe (KDT). Khoekhoe (Khoe-Kwadi, Namibia) is a low-resource language with few linguistic and computational resources available publicly. This treebank consists of 29k words across six texts taken from various registers. It includes a substantial portion of spoken conversational data. These sentences were annotated manually according to the Universal Dependencies framework. In this paper, apart from presenting the strategies that have been followed to create the treebank, we also discussed some challenging morphological features and syntactic constructions found in the corpus and outlined how we have handled them using the current Universal Dependencies specification.