Summary

The UD-Albanian-STAF (Saarbruecken Treebank of Albanian Fiction) is a treebank of the Albanian language, comprising 202 randomly selected sentences from six fictional books published between 1963 and 2004.

Introduction

The UD-Albanian-STAF treebank was initially automatically annotated using a Stanza model trained on unpublished Albanian treebanks, namely a seedbank treebank. Subsequently, the sentences in STAF were manually corrected by three Albanian native speakers. Finally, a review and further corrections were conducted.

Acknowledgments

Many thanks to Nelda Kote and her group for providing me with their unpublished Albanian treebank (Kote et al. 2024), which served as the seedbank treebank to boostrap STAF. Anila Cepani and Rozana Rushiti provided invaluable information on the Albanian language and helped training our student assistant, Edita Luftiu, who served as the main annotator.

References

• Luigi Talamo. Introducing STAF: the Saarbruecken Treebank of Albanian Fiction. Submitted.
• Nelda Kote, Rozana Rushiti, Anila Çepani, Alba Haveriku, Evis Trandafili, Elinda Kajo Mece, Elsa Skenderi Rakipllari, Lindita Xhanari, Albana Deda: Universal Dependencies Treebank for Standard Albanian: A new approach, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria, 9 – 10 September 2024, Sofia, Bulgaria, ISSN: 2367 5675.

Changelog

• 2024-11-15 v2.15
  • Initial release in Universal Dependencies.

=== Machine-readable metadata (DO NOT REMOVE!) ================================
Data available since: UD v2.15
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Includes text: yes
Parallel: no
Genre: fiction
Lemmas: automatic with corrections
UPOS: manual native
XPOS: not available
Features: automatic with corrections
Relations: manual native
Contributors: Talamo, Luigi; Luftiu, Edita; Kote, Nelda; Rushiti, Rozana; Çepani, Anila
Contributing: here
Contact: luigi.talamo@uni-saarland.de
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