Ebook: Second Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2018). Proceedings of the Workshop

Assessing the Impact of Incremental Error Detection and Correction. A Case Study on the Italian Universal Dependency Treebank
Chiara Alzetta, Felice Dell’Orletta, Simonetta Montemagni, Maria Simi and Giulia Venturi . . . . . 1
Using Universal Dependencies in cross-linguistic complexity research
Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Çagrı Çöltekin, Katharina Ehret, Kilu von Prince, Daniel Ross, Bill ˘
Thompson, Chunxiao Yan, Vera Demberg, Gary Lupyan, Taraka Rama and Christian Bentz . . . . . . . . . . 8
Expletives in Universal Dependency Treebanks
Gosse Bouma, Jan Hajic, Dag Haug, Joakim Nivre, Per Erik Solberg and Lilja Øvrelid . . . . . . . . 18
Challenges in Converting the Index Thomisticus Treebank into Universal Dependencies
Flavio Massimiliano Cecchini, Marco Passarotti, Paola Marongiu and Daniel Zeman . . . . . . . . . . 27
Er ... well, it matters, right? On the role of data representations in spoken language dependency parsing
Kaja Dobrovoljc and Matej Martinc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Mind the Gap: Data Enrichment in Dependency Parsing of Elliptical Constructions
Kira Droganova, Filip Ginter, Jenna Kanerva and Daniel Zeman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Integration complexity and the order of cosisters
William Dyer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
SUD or Surface-Syntactic Universal Dependencies: An annotation scheme near-isomorphic to UD
Kim Gerdes, Bruno Guillaume, Sylvain Kahane and Guy Perrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Coordinate Structures in Universal Dependencies for Head-final Languages
Hiroshi Kanayama, Na-Rae Han, Masayuki Asahara, Jena D. Hwang, Yusuke Miyao, Jinho D. Choi
and Yuji Matsumoto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Investigating NP-Chunking with Universal Dependencies for English
Ophélie Lacroix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Marrying Universal Dependencies and Universal Morphology
Arya D. McCarthy, Miikka Silfverberg, Ryan Cotterell, Mans Hulden and David Yarowsky . . . . 91
Enhancing Universal Dependency Treebanks: A Case Study
Joakim Nivre, Paola Marongiu, Filip Ginter, Jenna Kanerva, Simonetta Montemagni, Sebastian
Schuster and Maria Simi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Enhancing Universal Dependencies for Korean
Youngbin Noh, Jiyoon Han, Tae Hwan Oh and Hansaem Kim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
UD-Japanese BCCWJ: Universal Dependencies Annotation for the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary
Written Japanese
Mai Omura and Masayuki Asahara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
The First Komi-Zyrian Universal Dependencies Treebanks
Niko Partanen, Rogier Blokland, KyungTae Lim, Thierry Poibeau and Michael Rießler . . . . . . . 126
The Hebrew Universal Dependency Treebank: Past Present and Future
Shoval Sade, Amit Seker and Reut Tsarfaty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
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Multi-source synthetic treebank creation for improved cross-lingual dependency parsing
Francis Tyers, Mariya Sheyanova, Aleksandra Martynova, Pavel Stepachev and Konstantin Vinogorodskiy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Toward Universal Dependencies for Shipibo-Konibo
Alonso Vásquez, Renzo Ego Aguirre, Candy Angulo, John Miller, Claudia Villanueva, Željko Agic,´
Roberto Zariquiey and Arturo Oncevay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Transition-based Parsing with Lighter Feed-Forward Networks
David Vilares and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Extended and Enhanced Polish Dependency Bank in Universal Dependencies Format
Alina Wróblewska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Approximate Dynamic Oracle for Dependency Parsing with Reinforcement Learning
Xiang Yu, Ngoc Thang Vu and Jonas Kuhn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .183
The Coptic Universal Dependency Treebank
Amir Zeldes and Mitchell Abrams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .192