Abstract

UD for German Poetry

Stefanie Dipper, Ronja Laarmann-Quante

This article deals with the syntactic analysis of German-language poetry of the 19th century. We use Universal Dependencies (UD) as our syntactic framework. We discuss particular challenges of the poems in terms of tokenization, sentence boundary recognition and special syntactic constructions. Our annotated corpus currently consists of 20 poems with a total of 2,162 tokens, which originate from the PoeTree.de corpus. We present some statistics on our annotations and also evaluate the automatic UD annotation from PoeTree.de using our annotations.

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