Abstract

Building a Universal Dependencies Treebank for Georgian

Irina Lobzhanidze, Erekle Magradze, Svetlana Berikashvili, Anzor Gozalishvili, Tata Jalaghonia

This paper presents the design and development of the Georgian Syntactic Treebank within the Universal Dependencies (UD) framework, addressing the unique morphosyntactic challenges of Georgian, a Kartvelian language. We describe the methodology for selecting and annotating 3,013 sentences from Wiki, mapping existing tagsets to the UD scheme, and converting data into the CoNLL-U format. The paper also details the training of a UDPipe model using this preliminary treebank.