Akkadian Treebank for early Neo-Assyrian Royal Inscriptions

Mikko Luukko; Aleksi Sahala; Sam Hardwick; Krister Lindén

Akkadian Treebank for early Neo-Assyrian Royal Inscriptions

Mikko Luukko, Aleksi Sahala, Sam Hardwick, Krister Lindén

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Abstract

This paper presents the first proper syntactic treebank for Akkadian, an ancient Semitic language which can only be reconstructed from its textual data. We introduce our corpus of early Neo-Assyrian royal inscriptions, present some typical syntactic constructions of this genre and dis-cuss the morphological and syntactic choices we have made. For developing a gold standard for morphological annotations, we tested the manually annotated material against BabyFST, a mor-phological analyzer of Akkadian. We also tested the reproducibility of the syntactic annotations using the TurkuNLP neural parser.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories
Editors	Kilian Evang, Laura Kallmeyer, Rafael Ehren, Simon Petitjean, Esther Seyffarth, Djamé Seddah
Number of pages	11
Place of Publication	Stroudsburg
Publisher	The Association for Computational Linguistics
Publication date	27 Oct 2020
Pages	124-134
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-952148-01-9
Publication status	Published - 27 Oct 2020
MoE publication type	A4 Article in conference proceedings
Event	International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories - [Online-only event] Duration: 27 Oct 2020 → 28 Oct 2020 Conference number: 19 https://tlt2020.phil.hhu.de/

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Luukko, Mikko ; Sahala, Aleksi ; Hardwick, Sam ; Lindén, Krister. / Akkadian Treebank for early Neo-Assyrian Royal Inscriptions. Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories. editor / Kilian Evang ; Laura Kallmeyer ; Rafael Ehren ; Simon Petitjean ; Esther Seyffarth ; Djamé Seddah. Stroudsburg : The Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020. pp. 124-134

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Luukko, M , Sahala, A , Hardwick, S & Lindén, K 2020, Akkadian Treebank for early Neo-Assyrian Royal Inscriptions. in K Evang, L Kallmeyer, R Ehren, S Petitjean, E Seyffarth & D Seddah (eds), Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories. The Association for Computational Linguistics, Stroudsburg, pp. 124-134, International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories, [Online-only event], 27/10/2020.

Akkadian Treebank for early Neo-Assyrian Royal Inscriptions. / Luukko, Mikko ; Sahala, Aleksi ; Hardwick, Sam ; Lindén, Krister.

Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories. ed. / Kilian Evang; Laura Kallmeyer; Rafael Ehren; Simon Petitjean; Esther Seyffarth; Djamé Seddah. Stroudsburg : The Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020. p. 124-134.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review

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Akkadian Treebank for early Neo-Assyrian Royal Inscriptions

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