Researcher profile

Francis M. Tyers

5 papers in the PaperMetrix corpus

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Papers by this author

  1. Universal Dependencies v2: An Evergrowing Multilingual Treebank Collection

    2020 · Uppsala University Publications (Uppsala University)

    Universal Dependencies is an open community effort to create cross-linguistically consistent treebank annotation for many languages within a dependency-based lexicalist framework. The annotation consists in a linguistically motivated word segmentation; a morphological layer comprising lemmas, …

  2. Expanding Universal Dependencies for Polysynthetic Languages: A Case of St. Lawrence Island Yupik

    2021

    This paper describes the development of the first Universal Dependencies (UD, While the UD guidelines provided a general framework for our annotations, language-specific decisions were made necessary by the rich morphology of the polysynthetic language. …

  3. Neural Polysynthetic Language Modelling.

    2020

    Many techniques in modern computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP) make the assumption that approaches that work well on English and other widely used European (and sometimes Asian) languages are “language agnostic” – that …

  4. Evaluating Automatic Pronunciation Scoring with Crowd-sourced Speech Corpus Annotations

    2024 · Linköping electronic conference proceedings

    Pronunciation is an important, and difficult aspect of learning a language. Providing feedback to learners automatically can help train pronunciation, but training a model to do so requires corpora annotated for mispronunciation. Such corpora are …

  5. CoNLL 2017 Shared Task: Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies

    2017

    Daniel Zeman, Martin Popel, Milan Straka, Jan Hajič, Joakim Nivre, Filip Ginter, Juhani Luotolahti, Sampo Pyysalo, Slav Petrov, Martin Potthast, Francis Tyers, Elena Badmaeva, Memduh Gokirmak, Anna Nedoluzhko, Silvie Cinková, Jan Hajič jr., Jaroslava Hlaváčová, …