Building UD Cairo for Old English in the Classroom

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F26%3AVQ8XTKLM" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/26:VQ8XTKLM - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18718" target="_blank" >https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18718</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2504.18718" target="_blank" >10.48550/ARXIV.2504.18718</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Building UD Cairo for Old English in the Classroom
Original language description
In this paper we present a sample treebank for Old English based on the UD Cairo sentences, collected and annotated as part of a classroom curriculum in Historical Linguistics. To collect the data, a sample of 20 sentences illustrating a range of syntactic constructions in the world's languages, we employ a combination of LLM prompting and searches in authentic Old English data. For annotation we assigned sentences to multiple students with limited prior exposure to UD, whose annotations we compare and adjudicate. Our results suggest that while current LLM outputs in Old English do not reflect authentic syntax, this can be mitigated by post-editing, and that although beginner annotators do not possess enough background to complete the task perfectly, taken together they can produce good results and learn from the experience. We also conduct preliminary parsing experiments using Modern English training data, and find that although performance on Old English is poor, parsing on annotated features (lemma, hyperlemma, gloss) leads to improved performance.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
O - Miscellaneous
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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