UCCA-Annotated German Corpus

Version 2.0 (May 21, 2020)

This bundle contains 414 passages annotated according to the foundational layer of UCCA. The total number of tokens in this corpus is 143,626.

Corpus:

The German corpus used here is the book Zwanzigtausend Meilen unter'm Meer (Vingt Mille Lieues Sous les Mers / Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea), a classic science fiction novel written in French by Jules Verne (1828--1905), and first published in 1870.

Format and Source Code:

Information about the format of the xml files and source code for reading and manipulating them are available at https://universalconceptualcognitiveannotation.github.io

Known Issues:

Sentence 25515002 is dropped when splitting to sentences. It is the third sentence in passage 25515 ("Darauf begann er seine Erklärung folgendermaßen: ..."), and it has 386 tokens. It comprises several sentences, but since they are all inside a quote which is a Participant in a top scene, they are not split by the sentence-splitting script (since it only splits on top scenes).

Citation:

The annotation was conducted at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. If you use this corpus, please cite:

@inproceedings{hershcovich-etal-2019-semeval,
    title = "{S}em{E}val-2019 Task 1: Cross-lingual Semantic Parsing with {UCCA}",
    author = "Hershcovich, Daniel  and
      Aizenbud, Zohar  and
      Choshen, Leshem  and
      Sulem, Elior  and
      Rappoport, Ari  and
      Abend, Omri",
    booktitle = "Proc. of SemEval",
    month = jun,
    year = "2019",
    address = "Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/S19-2001",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/S19-2001",
    pages = "1--10"
}

Licensing:

The UCCA annotation is distributed under the "Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported" license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/). Please follow the link for exact details.