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# UD_Alemannic-UZH

Treebank card from UD release 2.18: metadata and texts come from `UD_Alemannic-UZH/README.md`; size is counted by streaming the `.conllu` files and checked against the release `stats.xml`. Generated by `tools/treebanks build`; do not edit by hand. Papers: [Papers: UD_Alemannic-UZH](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/treebanks/gsw/uzh/papers/); seeds: `seeds/`; converter: `convert.md`.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| UD name | UD_Alemannic-UZH |
| Language | Alemannic (`gsw`) |
| Family | IE |
| Treebank code | `gsw_uzh` |
| UD page | [universaldependencies.org/treebanks/gsw uzh/index.html](https://universaldependencies.org/treebanks/gsw_uzh/index.html) |
| License | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Genres | fiction, news, blog, wiki, nonfiction |
| Text in data | yes |
| Parallel | no |
| In UD since | UD v2.5 |
| Authors | Noëmi Aepli |
| Contact | [naepli@cl.uzh.ch](mailto:naepli@cl.uzh.ch) |
| Development | in the UD repo (here) |

## Annotation layers

| Layer | Origin |
| --- | --- |
| Lemmas | not available |
| UPOS | converted with corrections |
| XPOS | manual native |
| Features | not available |
| Relations | manual native |

UD scale: *manual native* — annotated by hand directly in UD; *converted from manual* — converted from manual annotation in another scheme; *converted with corrections* — converted and partly corrected by hand; *automatic with corrections* — automatic, with partial manual corrections; *automatic* — automatic; *not available* — the layer is absent.

## Size

| Split | Sentences | Tokens | Words | Multiword tokens | Empty nodes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| test | 100 | 1 444 | 1 444 | 0 | 0 |
| **total** | 100 | 1 444 | 1 444 | 0 | 0 |

Tokens are surface tokens (Spanish `vámonos` is one), words are syntactic words (`vamos` + `nos`); multiword tokens are those split into several words; empty nodes are the `N.M` nodes of the enhanced graph. Splits train, dev are absent from the release.

## Summary

> *UD_Alemannic-UZH* is a tiny manually annotated treebank of 100 sentences in different Swiss German dialects and a variety of text genres.

## Introduction

> This repository presents work on Universal Dependency Parsing for Swiss German, which has been done as part of the Master’s Thesis *Parsing Approaches for Swiss German* at the [Institute for Computational Linguistics](https://github.com/ElamurAI/mova-free/blob/main/treebanks/gsw/uzh/www.cl.uzh.ch) at the University of Zurich.
> 
> The provided resources consist of 100 Swiss German sentences (from different sources), manually annotated with part-of-speech tags and universal dependencies.
> 
> [NOAH’s Corpus of Swiss German Dialects](https://noe-eva.github.io/NOAH-Corpus/corpus.html) was used as a resource for the Swiss German part-of-speech tagging process – a process preliminary to parsing.
> 
> ## Annotation
> 
> In general, we follow the German guidelines [UD for German](https://universaldependencies.org/de/index.html).
> 
> The POS annotations are generally based on the German guidelines, namely the [Stuttgart-Tübingen-TagSet (STTS)](http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/resources/stts-1999.pdf) and some changes according to the [TIGER annotation scheme](https://files.ifi.uzh.ch/cl/siclemat/lehre/papers/tiger-annot.pdf). Furthermore, dealing with Swiss German, there is the need for an additional POS tag `PTKINF`, not present in the STTS tagset, as well as for the "meta tag" `TAG+`.
> 
> - `PTKINF` is an infinitive particle which does not exist in Standard German but is frequently used in dialects. It comes in the form of *go*, *cho*, *goge*, *lo* to name a few, as in *Si gönd go poschte*. (*They go shopping.*) In the Standard German translation, *Sie gehen einkaufen.*, we can see that there is no equivalent.
> - `TAG+` is used to handle merged words; we introduced the “+“-sign which can be added to any PoS tag. In the STTS there is one tag like this: the `APPRART`, used for combinations of articles and prepositions like *im* consisting of *in + dem* (*in the*). However, in Swiss German these kind of merges are performed with any kind of words and just merging the tags would result in a big tagset. Therefore we decided to use the "head" of the word or the first word as tag and simply add a plus to show that this word incorporates another one [Hollenstein and Aepli, 2014](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/treebanks/gsw/uzh/). Like this, they can easily be found and, if needed, manually expanded. Frequent examples of such words include *hemmer* (*haben + wir*), *häts* (*hat + es*), and *sinz* (*sind + sie*), for *we have*, *it has* and *they are*.
> 
> The Universal Dependency POS (UPOS) tags are converted according to the mapping provided by the Universal Dependency. Additionaly:
> 
> - `PTKINF` are converted to `PART`
> - the plus sign in `TAG+` are disgarded

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