| Joakim Nivre |
| Fri 22 May 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 |
| Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
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Abstract:
Universal Dependencies is a recent initiative to develop cross-linguistically consistent treebank annotation for many languages, with the goal of facilitating multilingual parser development, cross-lingual learning, and parsing research from a language typology perspective. In this talk, I outline the motivation behind the initiative and explain how the basic design principles follow from these requirements. I then discuss the different components of the annotation standard, including principles for word segmentation, morphological annotation, and syntactic annotation. I conclude with some thoughts on the challenges that lie ahead.
Bio:
Joakim Nivre is Professor of Computational Linguistics at Uppsala University. He holds a Ph.D. in General Linguistics from the University of Gothenburg and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Växjö University. Joakim's research focuses on data-driven methods for natural language processing, in particular for syntactic and semantic analysis. He is one of the main developers of the transition-based approach to syntactic dependency parsing, described in his 2006 book Inductive Dependency Parsing and implemented in the MaltParser system. Joakim's current research interests include the integration of morphological and syntactic processing for richly inflected languages and the development of cross-linguistically consistent treebank annotation within the framework of Universal Dependencies. He has served as the president of ACL's Special Interest Group on Computational Natural Language Learning (SIGNLL) and as the secretary of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), and he is currently Vice-President Elect of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).