@inproceedings{gaustad-etal-2024-first,
    title = "The First {U}niversal {D}ependency Treebank for {T}swana: {T}swana-Popapolelo",
    author = "Gaustad, Tanja  and
      Berg, Ansu  and
      Pretorius, Rigardt  and
      Eiselen, Roald",
    editor = "Mabuya, Rooweither  and
      Matfunjwa, Muzi  and
      Setaka, Mmasibidi  and
      van Zaanen, Menno",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages @ LREC-COLING 2024",
    month = may,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Torino, Italia",
    publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.rail-1.7",
    pages = "55--65",
    abstract = "This paper presents the first publicly available UD treebank for Tswana, Tswana-Popapolelo. The data used consists of the 20 Cairo CICLing sentences translated to Tswana. After pre-processing these sentences with detailed POS (XPOS) and converting them to universal POS (UPOS), we proceeded to annotate the data with dependency relations, documenting decisions for the language specific constructions. Linguistic issues encountered are described in detail as this is the first application of the UD framework to produce a dependency treebank for the Bantu language family in general and for Tswana specifically.",
}

This paper presents the first publicly available UD treebank for Tswana, Tswana-Popapolelo. The data used consists of the 20 Cairo CICLing sentences translated to Tswana. After pre-processing these sentences with detailed POS (XPOS) and converting them to universal POS (UPOS), we proceeded to annotate the data with dependency relations, documenting decisions for the language specific constructions. Linguistic issues encountered are described in detail as this is the first application of the UD framework to produce a dependency treebank for the Bantu language family in general and for Tswana specifically.
Gaustad, Tanja Berg, Ansu Pretorius, Rigardt Eiselen, Roald
The First Universal Dependency Treebank for Tswana: Tswana-Popapolelo