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This work aims to summarize the Universal Dependencies corpus and its contributions to linguistics.

December 19, 2025Open Access

Corpus-based language comparison: From morphology to dependencies and beyond

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This work aims to summarize the Universal Dependencies corpus and its contributions to linguistics.
Overview of the multilingual corpus collection and its extensions
Discussion of UNER annotation for named entities
Analysis of CorefUD annotation for coreference and anaphora
Evaluation of corpus applications in Digital Humanities
Extension of the corpus to include named entities and coreference features
Emphasis on comparative linguistics and typology implications
Demonstrated utility in Digital Humanities research

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We provide an overview of the Universal Dependencies multilingual corpus collection, its current status and numerous extensions, such as the UNER annotation of named entities or the CorefUD annotation of coreference and anaphora. We discuss the utility of the data in several areas of Digital Humanities, with a particular focus on comparative linguistics and typology.Keywords: annotated corpus; treebank; morphology; syntax; typology.

Corpus-based language comparison: From morphology to dependencies and beyond

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