Presentation notes from the 2nd UniDive Workshop

These are the notes that I've (Furkan) taken during the presentation of the poster in the 2nd UniDive Workshop in Naples on Feb 8.

Notes

• Nikolett Mus
  • "Uralic has similar constructions." She wanted to join the UD Turkic group and I added her to the mailing list.
  • Recommended that we document all the ways of annotation regarding an issue (e.g. pronominalized nouns) in a tabular format. I guess we want to do this for the paper.
  • She favored the 4th way of annotation (regarding the pronominal issue) which has an empty form / lemma.
    • She mentioned that the unit seems like an embedded clause without a verb.
  • Question particle
    • I mentioned that it acts as an infix in Turkic languages. Even though it seems like a word of its own in Turkish, some speakers even write it without a space.
    • She mentioned the lack of prosodic information in UD.
• Federica Gamba (the author of the "Universalising Latin Universal Dependencies: a harmonisation of Latin treebanks in UD", 2023 with Daniel Zeman)
  • She mentioned the difficulties they encountered in the work.
  • Said it's good that most of the groups are on board with this standardizing effort. The annotators of one Latin treebank were completely uninterested.
• Daniel Zeman
  • Oblique/object distinction
    • He thought it an oblique on the first sight.
  • I mentioned Büşra, Çağrı Hoca and Jonathan's selections in the pronominal issue.
    • He favored the "no segmentation" choice partly because it's simpler to implement and also it's favored by some members.
    • We can split automatically, if we choose the 3rd option of "segmenting before -ki".
  • Didn't like the 4th option at all. Empty form seems out of question.
• Andre Coneglian
  • Regarding "oblique/object" issue, he mentioned the book 'Morphosyntax' by William Croft, 2022. | its DOI link
    • Talks about argument structure in several chapters, may be highly relevant.
    • Mentioned salience, finding the most salient after the subject could be a way.