1st UniDive webinar

• Event title: 1st UniDive webinar for newcomers to UD, PARSEME and/or Grew-match
• Location: online
• Date: 19-06-2023

The material from the webinar is openly available under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 4.0 for the Grew-match tutorial, CC-BY 4.0 for the others):

• Tutorial on Universal Dependencies (all latex sources):
  • Introduction (slides, recording)
  • Cross-linguistically consistent syntactic annotation (slides, recording, minute 12'48)
  • Word segmentation and morphological annotation (slides, recording)
  • Annotation exercise (slides, recording minute 42'30)
  • Adding a new language to UD (slides, recording)
• Tutorial on PARSEME (latex sources)
  • Introduction to annotating verbal multiword expressions in the PARSEME framework (slides, recording)
  • Sample file to annotate (txt, conllu)
• Tutorial on Grew-match
  • Queries on UD and PARSEME annotated corpora (slides, recording)

The objective of the webinar is to train new creators, maintainers and users of UD and PARSEME treebanks for the sake of language diversity and universality-driven language modelling. Young researcher or investigators, as well as people working on under-resourced or endangered languages are particularly welcome.

The program is meant for newcomers to Universal Dependencies, PARSEME and/or Grew-match:

• 9:00-12:00 CEST: Introduction to Universal Dependencies - by Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Joakim Nivre, and Daniel Zeman
• 14:00-15:30 CEST: Introduction to PARSEME - by Carlos Ramisch and Agata Savary
• 15:30-15:45 CEST: break
• 15:45-17:00 CEST: Introduction to Grew-match - by Bruno Guillaume

The webinar gathered 6 trainers and 85 participants, both members (48%) and non-members (52%) of UniDive. The participants are affiliated to some 30 countries and work on dozens of languages, including many under-resourced ones.

To register to the event, please fill in this form no later than 12 June 2023.

More details about the schedule and connection link will be sent to the registered participants after the deadline.

We also plan to record the tutorial and publish it online after the event.