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# UD_Northern_Kurdish-Kurmanji

Treebank card from UD release 2.18: metadata and texts come from `UD_Northern_Kurdish-Kurmanji/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_Northern_Kurdish-Kurmanji](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/treebanks/kmr/kurmanji/papers/); seeds: `seeds/`; converter: `convert.md`.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| UD name | UD_Northern_Kurdish-Kurmanji |
| Language | Northern Kurdish (`kmr`) |
| Family | IE |
| Treebank code | `kmr_kurmanji` |
| UD page | [universaldependencies.org/treebanks/kmr kurmanji/index.html](https://universaldependencies.org/treebanks/kmr_kurmanji/index.html) |
| License | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Genres | fiction, wiki |
| Text in data | yes |
| Parallel | no |
| In UD since | UD v2.1 |
| Authors | Memduh Gökırmak; Francis Tyers |
| Contact | [memduhg@gmail.com](mailto:memduhg@gmail.com) [ftyers@hse.ru](mailto:ftyers@hse.ru) |
| Development | outside the UD repo (elsewhere): fixes go to the source or the converter |
| Paragraphs to web | 1 |

## Annotation layers

| Layer | Origin |
| --- | --- |
| Lemmas | converted from manual |
| UPOS | converted from manual |
| XPOS | manual native |
| Features | converted from manual |
| 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| train | 20 | 242 | 242 | 0 | 0 |
| test | 734 | 9 946 | 10 017 | 71 | 0 |
| **total** | 754 | 10 188 | 10 259 | 71 | 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 dev are absent from the release.

## Summary

> The treebank is a corpus of Kurmanji Kurdish. It contains fiction and encyclopaedic texts in roughly equal measure. It has been annotated natively in accordance with the UD annotation scheme.

## Introduction

> This is a Kurmanji (Northern Kurdish) treebank developed with the UD framework. It consists of a Sherlock Holmes story, "The Adventure of the Speckled Band", translated in 1944 by Celadet Bedirxan in the magazine Ronahi, and sentences from the Kurmanji Wikipedia.

- [↑ back to Northern Kurdish (kmr) — UD 2.18 treebanks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/treebanks/kmr/)