Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026)

Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026) Çağrı Çöltekin editor Kaja Dobrovoljc editor 2026-05 ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain text conference publication udw-2026-1 https://aclanthology.org/2026.udw-1.0/ Probing the Dynamics of Syntactic Ability Acquisition Throughout LLM Pretraining Hiroshi Matsuda author Masayuki Asahara author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026) Çağrı Çöltekin editor Kaja Dobrovoljc editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication matsuda-asahara-2026-probing 10.63317/2n8gkp49p3wg https://aclanthology.org/2026.udw-1.1/ 2026-05 1 48 Which languages are “hot”, and which are “cool”? Using Universal Dependencies for large-scale comparisons of subject expression Natalia Levshina author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026) Çağrı Çöltekin editor Kaja Dobrovoljc editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication levshina-2026-languages 10.63317/2s2z5jrzaihn https://aclanthology.org/2026.udw-1.2/ 2026-05 49 53 Clefting and beyond in Tigrinya Nazareth Amlesom Kifle author Michael Gasser author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026) Çağrı Çöltekin editor Kaja Dobrovoljc editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication kifle-gasser-2026-clefting 10.63317/5ojvyhm9rz54 https://aclanthology.org/2026.udw-1.3/ 2026-05 54 59 Coconstructions in Spoken Data: UD Annotation Guidelines and First Results Ludovica Pannitto author Kaja Dobrovoljc Zor author Sylvain Kahane author Elena Battaglia author Bruno Guillaume author Caterina Mauri author Eleonora Zucchini author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026) Çağrı Çöltekin editor Kaja Dobrovoljc editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication pannitto-etal-2026-coconstructions 10.63317/3kcohrckgnkz https://aclanthology.org/2026.udw-1.4/ 2026-05 60 75 Verifying the Menzerath-Altmann law in the verbal domain in 180 languages Pegah Faghiri author Kim Gerdes author Sylvain Kahane author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026) Çağrı Çöltekin editor Kaja Dobrovoljc editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication faghiri-etal-2026-verifying 10.63317/34eabs2yfdfh https://aclanthology.org/2026.udw-1.5/ 2026-05 76 90 Comparing Dependency Distances of Esperanto and Other Languages in a Multi-Lingual Parallel Corpus Masanori Oya author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026) Çağrı Çöltekin editor Kaja Dobrovoljc editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication oya-2026-comparing 10.63317/2g2xbbagrddj https://aclanthology.org/2026.udw-1.6/ 2026-05 91 96 Negation of Turkic non-verbal clauses: Analysis and Universal Dependencies Implementation Nikolett Mus author Furkan Akkurt author Bermet Chontaeva author Soudabeh Eslami author Sardana Ivanova author Çağrı Çöltekin author Jonathan N Washington author Gulnura Dzhumalieva author Aida Kasieva author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026) Çağrı Çöltekin editor Kaja Dobrovoljc editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication mus-etal-2026-negation 10.63317/3tfwkpfmuxdq https://aclanthology.org/2026.udw-1.7/ 2026-05 97 102 Towards Universal Dependencies for L2 Learners of Modern Greek: Annotation and Challenges Christina Klironomou author Thelka Pasparaki author Arianna Masciolini author Alexandros Tantos author Despoina Ourania Touriki author Konstantinos Tsiotskas author Eleni Tsourilla author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026) Çağrı Çöltekin editor Kaja Dobrovoljc editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication klironomou-etal-2026-towards 10.63317/2hvggjauvken https://aclanthology.org/2026.udw-1.8/ 2026-05 103 108 A Comparative Linguistic Analysis of Ottoman and Modern Turkish through UD Treebanks Enes Yılandiloğlu author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026) Çağrı Çöltekin editor Kaja Dobrovoljc editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication yilandiloglu-2026-comparative 10.63317/3mibdtg69jdx https://aclanthology.org/2026.udw-1.9/ 2026-05 109 115 Word segmentation for UD: a comparison of isiZulu and Sepedi Laurette Marais author Laurette Pretorius author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026) Çağrı Çöltekin editor Kaja Dobrovoljc editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication marais-pretorius-2026-word 10.63317/35ihcv2cfbzq https://aclanthology.org/2026.udw-1.10/ 2026-05 116 127 CoBra: A Compound Branching Resource for Nominal Triconstituent Compounds in English and German Carmen Schacht author Isabell Landwehr author Diana Davidson author Konrad Grabowski author Magdalena Meiser author Sophia Wiedmann author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026) Çağrı Çöltekin editor Kaja Dobrovoljc editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication schacht-etal-2026-cobra 10.63317/4hbr9zq3ty8c https://aclanthology.org/2026.udw-1.11/ 2026-05 128 141 SE Constructions Revisited: Focus on Treebanks for Romance Languages Verginica Barbu Mititelu author Elena Irimia author Adriana S Pagano author Roxana Ciolaneanu author Ioana Buhnila author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026) Çağrı Çöltekin editor Kaja Dobrovoljc editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication barbu-mititelu-etal-2026-se 10.63317/3grvvhmni3v6 https://aclanthology.org/2026.udw-1.12/ 2026-05 142 152 Say “No” to Missing Polarity: A Negation Enrichment of Porttinari UD Treebank Isaac Souza de Miranda Junior author Oto Araújo Vale author Marie-Catherine de Marneffe author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026) Çağrı Çöltekin editor Kaja Dobrovoljc editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication miranda-junior-etal-2026-say 10.63317/3u4nf3srx2d2 https://aclanthology.org/2026.udw-1.13/ 2026-05 153 162 The Grammar Does the Work: Functional vs. Lexical Dependency Length Minimization Across the UD Languages Kim Gerdes author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026) Çağrı Çöltekin editor Kaja Dobrovoljc editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication gerdes-2026-grammar 10.63317/4akqrtsv7i65 https://aclanthology.org/2026.udw-1.14/ 2026-05 163 173 Greenberg’s Universal 45 in Universal Dependencies: Gender Distinctions and Annotation Challenges Antoni Brosa-Rodriguez author M Dolores Jimenez Lopez author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026) Çağrı Çöltekin editor Kaja Dobrovoljc editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication brosa-rodriguez-jimenez-lopez-2026-greenbergs 10.63317/56hd7e52srga https://aclanthology.org/2026.udw-1.15/ 2026-05 174 182 A Proposal for a More Universal Annotation of Relative Clauses in Universal Dependencies Santiago Herrera author Sylvain Kahane author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026) Çağrı Çöltekin editor Kaja Dobrovoljc editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication herrera-kahane-2026-proposal 10.63317/33mr2csukeo5 https://aclanthology.org/2026.udw-1.16/ 2026-05 183 196 MesoTree: Annotated Linguistic Resources for Quantitative Comparative Linguistic Analysis and NLP in Mesoamerica Robert Pugh author Francis Tyers author Robert Henderson author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026) Çağrı Çöltekin editor Kaja Dobrovoljc editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication pugh-etal-2026-mesotree 10.63317/2xvtti733shi https://aclanthology.org/2026.udw-1.17/ 2026-05 197 207 Nonprototypical Predication and Nonpredicational Clauses in Universal Dependencies Joakim Nivre author William Croft author Andre Coneglian author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026) Çağrı Çöltekin editor Kaja Dobrovoljc editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication nivre-etal-2026-nonprototypical 10.63317/5h44ewr98ssu https://aclanthology.org/2026.udw-1.18/ 2026-05 208 217 Complex Predicates in Universal Dependencies Andre Coneglian author Joakim Nivre author William Croft author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026) Çağrı Çöltekin editor Kaja Dobrovoljc editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication coneglian-etal-2026-complex 10.63317/2ehetvp7j65g https://aclanthology.org/2026.udw-1.19/ 2026-05 218 228 Bringing Information Structure to Universal Dependencies Nikolett Mus author Andrew Dyer author Claudia Corbetta author Sylvain Kahane author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026) Çağrı Çöltekin editor Kaja Dobrovoljc editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication mus-etal-2026-bringing 10.63317/54jdn62ovjhk https://aclanthology.org/2026.udw-1.20/ 2026-05 229 241 Introducing Universal Dependencies for Sardinian: the UD ContSar Treebank Nicoletta Puddu author Manuela Sanguinetti author Luigi Talamo author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026) Çağrı Çöltekin editor Kaja Dobrovoljc editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication puddu-etal-2026-introducing 10.63317/4rbytt8qkexv https://aclanthology.org/2026.udw-1.21/ 2026-05 242 251 Exploiting Parallel Aligned Treebanks Maarten Janssen author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026) Çağrı Çöltekin editor Kaja Dobrovoljc editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication janssen-2026-exploiting 10.63317/36xdxbmxc4qv https://aclanthology.org/2026.udw-1.22/ 2026-05 252 257 Cross-Dialectal Transfer for Low-Resource Arabic: The Tunisian Arabic Dependency Treebank Amal Aissaoui author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026) Çağrı Çöltekin editor Kaja Dobrovoljc editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication aissaoui-2026-cross 10.63317/4vghkox8ptiq https://aclanthology.org/2026.udw-1.23/ 2026-05 258 267 From Treebank Metadata to Sentence-Level Genre in Universal Dependencies: A Reproducible, Versioned Resource Egon Stemle author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026) Çağrı Çöltekin editor Kaja Dobrovoljc editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication stemle-2026-treebank 10.63317/22ivc8whfgue https://aclanthology.org/2026.udw-1.24/ 2026-05 268 276 Towards a Universal Dependency Corpus for Old Saxon (Old Low German) Christian Chiarcos author Janine Siewert author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026) Çağrı Çöltekin editor Kaja Dobrovoljc editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication chiarcos-siewert-2026-towards 10.63317/592dfv44cgke https://aclanthology.org/2026.udw-1.25/ 2026-05 277 288 Gathering valency frames for annotation and batch corrections Mathilde Regnault author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026) Çağrı Çöltekin editor Kaja Dobrovoljc editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication regnault-2026-gathering 10.63317/3fcscsa4so7n https://aclanthology.org/2026.udw-1.26/ 2026-05 289 294 Syntax is the Key to Semantics: Combining Universal Dependencies and Abstract Meaning Representation Johannes Heinecke author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026) Çağrı Çöltekin editor Kaja Dobrovoljc editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication heinecke-2026-syntax 10.63317/5m6uk3bkccmx https://aclanthology.org/2026.udw-1.27/ 2026-05 295 304 Extending Retag to Conversion Error Detection: A Case Study on SynTagRus Morphology Andrei Movsesian author Daniil Timchenko author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026) Çağrı Çöltekin editor Kaja Dobrovoljc editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication movsesian-timchenko-2026-extending 10.63317/4uhg28waoj59 https://aclanthology.org/2026.udw-1.28/ 2026-05 305 314 Speech Act Constructions in Universal Dependencies Joakim Nivre author William Croft author Andre Coneglian author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026) Çağrı Çöltekin editor Kaja Dobrovoljc editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication nivre-etal-2026-speech 10.63317/33mhbbgockfc https://aclanthology.org/2026.udw-1.29/ 2026-05 315 320