Converting Russian Dependency Treebank to Stanford Typed Dependencies Representation

Abstract

In this paper, we describe the process of rule-based conversion of Russian dependency treebank into the Stanford dependency (SD) schema. The motivation behind this project is the expansion of the number of languages that have treebank resources available in one consistent annotation schema. Conversion includes creation of Russian-specific SD guidelines, defining conversion rules from the original treebank schema into the SD model and evaluation of the conversion results. The converted treebank becomes part of a multilingual resource for NLP purposes.