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# UD_Sinhala-STB

Treebank card from UD release 2.18: metadata and texts come from `UD_Sinhala-STB/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_Sinhala-STB](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/treebanks/si/stb/papers/); seeds: `seeds/`; converter: `convert.md`.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| UD name | UD_Sinhala-STB |
| Language | Sinhala (`si`) |
| Family | IE |
| Treebank code | `si_stb` |
| UD page | [universaldependencies.org/treebanks/si stb/index.html](https://universaldependencies.org/treebanks/si_stb/index.html) |
| License | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Genres | fiction, government, news, nonfiction, web |
| Text in data | yes |
| Parallel | no |
| In UD since | UD v2.11 |
| Authors | Liyanage Chamila; Sarveswaran Kengatharaiyer |
| Contact | [chamila.82@gmail.com](mailto:chamila.82@gmail.com), [sarves@univ.jfn.ac.lk](mailto:sarves@univ.jfn.ac.lk) |
| Development | outside the UD repo (elsewhere): fixes go to the source or the converter |

## Annotation layers

| Layer | Origin |
| --- | --- |
| Lemmas | manual native |
| UPOS | manual native |
| XPOS | manual native |
| Features | manual native |
| 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 | 880 | 880 | 0 | 0 |
| **total** | 100 | 880 | 880 | 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

> This treebank consists contemporary written Sinhala text taken from a 10M corpus maintained by UCSC, Sri Lanka. The corpus contains novels, short stories, Sinhala translations, critiques and Sinhala newspapers.

## Introduction

> The Sinhala language is an Ido-aryan language spoken by about 20 million people around the world. It is one of the two official languages in Sri Lanka spoken by 75% of its population. Sinhala has been influenced by Portuguese, Dutch, English and Tamil languages in addition to Sanskrit and Pali.

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