Summary

UD Livvi-KKPP is a manually annotated new corpus of Livvi-Karelian made directly in the Universal dependencies annotation scheme. The data is collected from VepKar corpora and consists of mostly modern news texts but also some stories and educational texts.

Introduction

UD Karelian-KKPP is a manually annotated new corpus of Livvi-Karelian made in Universal dependencies annotation scheme. The data is collected from VepKar corpora and consists of mostly modern news texts but also some stories and educational texts. We have based many decisions in the dependency annotations on pre-existing Finnish treebanks. The morphological annotations and grammar are based on the refered books (Markianova, Ahtia) and the Karelian dictionary, with necessary orthographical modernisations.

Acknowledgments

The Livvi (Olonets-Karelian) transducer used in the automated annotation was originally built with funding from Kone Foundation «Language Programme» in Creation of Morphological Parsers for Minority Finno-Ugrian Languages. Rueter, J., Salo, M., Rantakaulio, T., Kuprina, J., Blumberga, R. & Soosaar, S. (01/01/2013–31/12/2014), Where Timo Rantakaulio and Jelena Ruppijeva both worked with description and evaluation. Jelena Ruppijeva translated 19 sentences from the Finnish text in http://ilazki.thinkgeek.co.uk/brat/#/uralic/fin, these can be found in the training set.

References

• Markianova, Ludmila. Karjalan kielioppi, Periodika, (2002).
• Ahtia, Edvard Vilhelm. Karjalan kielioppi. Karjalan Kansalaisseura, (1938).
• Karjalan kielen verkkosanakirja
• (citation) The construction of the Finite-state description is mentioned but not documented in:

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provides an introduction to the project, the language-independent Giellatekno
infrastructure at Troms{\o}, Norway, and the materials utilized in the
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Cite as

If you use the treebank, please cite the UDW 2019 paper:

@inproceedings{pirinen2019building,
  title={Building minority dependency treebanks, dictionaries and computational grammars at the same time—an experiment in Karelian treebanking},
  author={Pirinen, Tommi A},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW, SyntaxFest 2019)},
  pages={132--136},
  year={2019}
}

Changelog

• 2019-11-15 v2.5
  • Initial release in Universal Dependencies.

=== Machine-readable metadata (DO NOT REMOVE!) ================================
Data available since: UD v2.5
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Includes text: yes
Genre: nonfiction news web
Lemmas: manual native
UPOS: manual native
XPOS: not available
Features: manual native
Relations: manual native
Contributors: Pirinen, Tommi A
Contributing: elsewhere
Contact: tommi.antero.pirinen@uni-hamburg.de
===============================================================================