• Leader: Bruno Guillaume (France)
• Vice-leader: Kaja Dobrovoljc (Slovenia)

Annotated corpora constitute the Action's major operational tools for NLP-applied universality. Therefore, WG1 will be dedicated to the following activities:

1. Studies and community discussions in language typology and language universals at the level of morphology, syntax and semantics, with special attention paid to idiosyncrasy at all these levels;
2. Unification and enhancement of cross-lingual annotation guidelines for morpho-syntax and MWEs:
   • defining the division of labour between morpho-syntactic and semantic annotation,
   • addressing hard or weakly covered syntactic phenomena (syntactically irregular structures, relative clauses, coordination, pronoun inclusivity, etc.),
   • covering new MWE categories (nominal, adjectival and functional MWEs),
   • paving the way for unified annotation guidelines for idiosyncratic constructions;
3. Coordinate the development and maintenance of centralized software for universality-based corpus construction:
   • online spaces for community discussion and editing annotation guidelines,
   • tools for automatic pre-annotation, annotation transfer and manual annotation of corpora,
   • tools for corpus merging, validation, curation, statistics, conversion and release. The software development itself will be funded at national levels;
4. Defining file formats for corpora annotated according to the unified guidelines;
5. Construction of annotated corpora:
   • adapting the existing corpora to the enhanced guidelines,
   • creating new annotated corpora following the enhanced guidelines.

• List of current WG1 members
• Expression of interest in WG1 tasks [lists per task] - proposals for new tasks are welcome
  • Task 1.1: Linguistic typology and multilingual corpus annotation
  • Task 1.2: Extensions and updates to MWE annotation guidelines and UD-PARSEME unification
  • Task 1.3: Extensions and updates to morphosyntactic annotation guidelines
  • Task 1.4: Sharing tools, formats, and infrastructure

• WG1 Meeting 6, 17 January from 11:30 to 13:00 (CEST), online
• Task 1.2 Meeting, 24 January 2024 from 13:00 to 14:00 CET, online
• WG1 Meeting 7, 7th February 2024, co-located with the 2nd General Meeting in Naples on 8-9 Feb 2024

• WG1 Meeting 4 (online) - 27 November 2023: Updates on WG1 wiki, WG1 task activities and general [minutes]
• WG1 Meeting 3 (online) - 25 October 2023: Updates on WG1 tasks activities [minutes]
• WG1 Meeting 2 (online) - 13 September 2023: launching WG1 tasks [minutes]
• WG1 Meeting 1 (Paris-Saclay University, France) - 16-17 March 2023: brainstorming topics and slides - co-located with UniDive 1st general meeting

• Task 1.1: Linguistic typology and multilingual corpus annotation
  • Minutes from the task meetings

• Task 1.2 on MWE annotation guidelines and UD-PARSEME unification
  • Minutes from the task meetings
  • White paper proposition the roadmap for UD/PARSEME unification

• Task 1.3: Extensions and updates to morphosyntactic annotation guidelines
  • Minutes from the task meetings

• UniDive webinar for newcomers to Universal Dependencies, PARSEME and/or Grew-match

• WG1 mailing list for general announcements and proposals
• WG1 Telegram group for special announcements and discussions
• WG1 GitHub repository for collaborative surveys and information sharing