@inproceedings{dipper-etal-2024-universal,
    title = "{U}niversal {D}ependencies: Extensions for Modern and Historical {G}erman",
    author = {Dipper, Stefanie  and
      Haiber, Cora  and
      Schr{\"o}ter, Anna Maria  and
      Wiemann, Alexandra  and
      Brinkschulte, Maike},
    editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta  and
      Kan, Min-Yen  and
      Hoste, Veronique  and
      Lenci, Alessandro  and
      Sakti, Sakriani  and
      Xue, Nianwen",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)",
    month = may,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Torino, Italia",
    publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.1485",
    pages = "17101--17111",
    abstract = "In this paper we present extensions of the UD scheme for modern and historical German. The extensions relate in part to fundamental differences such as those between different kinds of arguments and modifiers. We illustrate the extensions with examples from the MHG data and discuss a number of MHG-specific constructions. At the current time, we have annotated a corpus of Middle High German with almost 29K tokens using this scheme, which to our knowledge is the first UD treebank for Middle High German. Inter-annotator agreement is very high: the annotators achieve a score of Î± = 0.85. A statistical analysis of the annotations shows some interesting differences in the distribution of labels between modern and historical German.",
}

In this paper we present extensions of the UD scheme for modern and historical German. The extensions relate in part to fundamental differences such as those between different kinds of arguments and modifiers. We illustrate the extensions with examples from the MHG data and discuss a number of MHG-specific constructions. At the current time, we have annotated a corpus of Middle High German with almost 29K tokens using this scheme, which to our knowledge is the first UD treebank for Middle High German. Inter-annotator agreement is very high: the annotators achieve a score of Î± = 0.85. A statistical analysis of the annotations shows some interesting differences in the distribution of labels between modern and historical German.
Dipper, Stefanie Haiber, Cora Schr{\"o}ter, Anna Maria Wiemann, Alex ra Brinkschulte, Maike
Universal Dependencies: Extensions for Modern and Historical German