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Kadri Muischnek University of Tartu, Estonia

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This article gives an overview of the state of art of tools and resources for syntactic analysis of Estonian. A morphosyntactic disambiguator, surface-syntactic analyzer and dependency parser are all based on the Constraint Grammar formalism. As for language resources, a 400,000-word manually annotated dependency treebank has been created, its annotation scheme is compatible with the output of the Constraint Grammar dependency parser. Part of the treebank has been converted to the Universal Dependencies annotation scheme. Our tools have also been tested by large-scale corpus annotation.

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  • Marcel den Dikken / Eötvös Loránd University; Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Budapest
  • Hans-Martin Gärtner / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Budapest
  • Elly van Gelderen / Arizona State University
  • Anders Holmberg / Newcastle University
  • Katarzyna Jaszczolt / University of Cambridge
  • Dániel Z. Kádár / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Budapest
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  • Katalin Mády / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Budapest
  • Gereon Müller / Leipzig University
  • Csaba Pléh / Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Central European University
  • Giampaolo Salvi / Eötvös Loránd University
  • Irina Sekerina / College of Staten Island CUNY
  • Péter Siptár / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Budapest
  • Gregory Stump / University of Kentucky
  • Peter Svenonius / University of Tromsø
  • Anne Tamm / Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church
  • Akira Watanabe / University of Tokyo
  • Jeroen van de Weijer / Shenzhen University

 

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