Universal Dependency

Universal Dependencies (UD) is a collaborative project aiming to create a standardized, cross-linguistically consistent framework for annotating the syntactic structure of sentences across many languages, facilitating multilingual natural language processing (NLP). Current research focuses on expanding UD's coverage to under-represented language families, developing methods to enrich annotations with finer-grained grammatical information (e.g., constructions), and improving the efficiency of UD-based algorithms through optimized implementations. This work is significant for advancing NLP research by providing a common resource for comparative linguistic studies and enabling the development of more robust and widely applicable NLP tools.