@inproceedings{washington-etal-2024-strategies,
    title = "Strategies for the Annotation of Pronominalised Locatives in {T}urkic {U}niversal {D}ependency Treebanks",
    author = {Washington, Jonathan  and
      {\c{C}}{\"o}ltekin, {\c{C}}a{\u{g}}r{\i}  and
      Akkurt, Furkan  and
      Chontaeva, Bermet  and
      Eslami, Soudabeh  and
      Jumalieva, Gulnura  and
      Kasieva, Aida  and
      Kuzgun, Asl{\i}  and
      Mar{\c{s}}an, B{\"u}{\c{s}}ra  and
      Taguchi, Chihiro},
    editor = {Bhatia, Archna  and
      Bouma, Gosse  and
      Do{\u{g}}ru{\"o}z, A. Seza  and
      Evang, Kilian  and
      Garcia, Marcos  and
      Giouli, Voula  and
      Han, Lifeng  and
      Nivre, Joakim  and
      Rademaker, Alexandre},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies (MWE-UD) @ LREC-COLING 2024",
    month = may,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Torino, Italia",
    publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.mwe-1.25",
    pages = "207--219",
    abstract = "As part of our efforts to develop unified Universal Dependencies (UD) guidelines for Turkic languages, we evaluate multiple approaches to a difficult morphosyntactic phenomenon, pronominal locative expressions formed by a suffix -ki. These forms result in multiple syntactic words, with potentially conflicting morphological features, and participating in different dependency relations. We describe multiple approaches to the problem in current (and upcoming) Turkic UD treebanks, and show that none of them offers a solution that satisfies a number of constraints we consider (including constraints imposed by UD guidelines). This calls for a compromise with the {`}least damage{'} that should be adopted by most, if not all, Turkic treebanks. Our discussion of the phenomenon and various annotation approaches may also help treebanking efforts for other languages or language families with similar constructions.",
}

As part of our efforts to develop unified Universal Dependencies (UD) guidelines for Turkic languages, we evaluate multiple approaches to a difficult morphosyntactic phenomenon, pronominal locative expressions formed by a suffix -ki. These forms result in multiple syntactic words, with potentially conflicting morphological features, and participating in different dependency relations. We describe multiple approaches to the problem in current (and upcoming) Turkic UD treebanks, and show that none of them offers a solution that satisfies a number of constraints we consider (including constraints imposed by UD guidelines). This calls for a compromise with the {`}least damage{'} that should be adopted by most, if not all, Turkic treebanks. Our discussion of the phenomenon and various annotation approaches may also help treebanking efforts for other languages or language families with similar constructions.
Washington, Jonathan {\c{C}}{\"o}ltekin, {\c{C}}a{\u{g}}r{\i} Akkurt, Furkan Chontaeva, Bermet Eslami, Soudabeh Jumalieva, Gulnura Kasieva, Aida Kuzgun, Asl{\i} Mar{\c{s}}an, B{\"u}{\c{s}}ra Taguchi, Chihiro
Strategies for the Annotation of Pronominalised Locatives in Turkic Universal Dependency Treebanks