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<div>We are happy to announce the release of the annotation guidelines for Universal Dependencies at <a href="http://universaldependencies.github.io/docs/">http://universaldependencies.github.io/docs/</a>.</div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif;">Universal Dependencies is a project that seeks to develop cross-linguistically consistent treebank annotation for many languages with the goal of facilitating multilingual parser development, cross-lingual
learning, and parsing research from a language typology perspective. The annotation scheme is based on (universal) Stanford dependencies (de Marneffe et al., 2006, 2008, 2014), Google universal part-of-speech tags (Petrov et al., 2012), and the Interset interlingua
for morphosyntactic tagsets (Zeman, 2008). The general philosophy is to provide a universal inventory of categories and guidelines to facilitate consistent annotation of similar constructions across languages, while allowing language-specific extensions when
necessary. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif;">We intend to treat version 1 as stable for at least the next year, but we may subsequently make further revisions based on experiences using it to treebank a range of languages. </span><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif;">Our
goal is to make a first release of data sets with language-specific documentation by January 1, 2015. If you are interested in contributing to this effort, please get in touch.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif;">Jinho Choi, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Tim Dozat, Filip Ginter, Yoav Goldberg, Jan
</span><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif;">Hajic, Christopher Manning, </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif;">Ryan McDonald, Joakim Nivre, Slav Petrov, Sampo Pyysalo, Natalia Silveira, Reut Tsarfaty, Dan Zeman</span></div>
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