Summary

UD_Icelandic-FarPaHC is a conversion of the Faroese Parsed Historical Corpus (FarPaHC) to the Universal Dependencies scheme.

The conversion was done using UDConverter.

Introduction

The Faroese Parsed Historical Corpus (FarPaHC) is a 53,000 word corpus which includes three texts from the 19th and 20th centuries. These texts were originally manually parsed according to the Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English (PPCHE) annotation scheme. Two of these parsed texts have been automatically converted to the Universal Dependencies scheme to create the 40,000 word UD_Faroese-FarPaHC.

Contents

Files

UD_Faroese-FarPaHC consists of two Faroese texts:

• NTACTS - Acts of the Apostles. Edition: 1937.

  Author:      Jákup Dahl
  Birthdate:   1878, died 1944 on his birthday, 5 June
  TextId:      ntacts
  Textname:    Ápostlasögan (Acts of the Apostles)[Originally published in Varðin 8, 1928, 
               as Ápostlasögan og hini almennu brævini (Acts of the Apostles and the Letters)]
  Edition:     "1937. Nýggja Testamenti. [The New Testament]
               Givið út hevur Det danske Bibelselskab. [Published by the Danish Bible Society]
               P. Haase og söns boghandel, Keypmannahavn. [Copenhagen]"
  Text online: http://old.bibelselskabet.dk/farbib/web/bibelen.htm
  Translation: From Greek
  Date:        1928
  Text genre:  Bible translation
  Wordcount:   17758 
  Sample:      Sample is from Acts 1:1-17:34, pp. 251-295
  

• NTJOHN - Gospel of St. John. Edition: 1937.

  Author:       Jákup Dahl
  Birthdate:    1878, died 1944 on his birthday, 5 June
  TextId:       ntjohn
  Textname:     Evangeliið eftir Jóhannes, (Gospel of St. John) [Originally published in Varðin 16, 1936.]
  Edition:      "1937. Nýggja Testamenti. [The New Testament] 
                Givið út hevur Det danske Bibelselskab. [Published by the Danish Bible Society] 
                P. Haase og söns boghandel, Keypmannahavn. [Copenhagen]"
  Text online:  http://old.bibelselskabet.dk/farbib/web/bibelen.htm
  Translation:  From Greek
  Date:         1936
  Text genre:   Bible translation
  Wordcount:    23873
  Sample:       Exhaustive sample of John, pp. 196-250
  

Sentences

Each sentence ID in UD_Faroese-FarPaHC carries the following information:

Example ID: 1928.NTACTS.REL-BIB,1.1

• Publication year of the text (1928)
• Name of the text (NTACTS)
• Text genre (REL-BIB)
• Index within text (1)
• Index within file (1)

As all the texts in the corpus are excerpts from the Bible, the only text genre present in the sentence IDs is REL-BIB, i.e., religious text, biblical.

Additional notes: Morphological Features

The UD morphological features in the corpus were converted from the FarPaHC PoS tags, which do not encode all possible grammatical categories for the language as described by the UD language documentation for Faroese. The features that do appear in UD_Faroese-FarPaHC are shown below, organised by grammatical category.

• Nouns: Case, Definite, Number
• Verbs: Tense, Mood, Verbform, Case
• Pronouns: Case, Gender, Number
• Numerals: Case
• Adjectives: Case, Degree
• Adverbs: Case, Degree, (Definite, Number)
• Determiners: Case
• Other: Foreign

Data split

TRAIN:

• 1936.NTJOHN.REL-BIB

DEV:

• First 300 sentences from 1928.NTACTS.REL-BIB

TEST:

• Last 300 sentences from 1928.NTACTS.REL-BIB

Acknowledgments

This project was funded by The Icelandic Student Innovation Fund, grant no. 206457-0091. Thanks are due to Örvar Kárason, whose previous work was used as a basis for the conversion.

The Faroese Parsed Historical Corpus (FarPaHC) is available at https://repository.clarin.is/repository/xmlui/handle/20.500.12537/92.

References

@inproceedings{arnardottir-etal-2020-universal,
    title = "A {U}niversal {D}ependencies Conversion Pipeline for a {P}enn-format Constituency Treebank",
    author = "Arnard{\'o}ttir, {\TH}{\'o}runn  and
      Hafsteinsson, Hinrik  and
      Sigur{\dh}sson, Einar Freyr  and
      Bjarnad{\'o}ttir, Krist{\'\i}n  and
      Ingason, Anton Karl  and
      J{\'o}nsd{\'o}ttir, Hildur  and
      Steingr{\'\i}msson, Stein{\th}{\'o}r",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2020)",
    month = dec,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Barcelona, Spain (Online)",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.udw-1.3",
    pages = "16--25",
    abstract = "The topic of this paper is a rule-based pipeline for converting constituency treebanks based on the Penn Treebank format to Universal Dependencies (UD). We describe an Icelandic constituency treebank, its annotation scheme and the UD scheme. The conversion is discussed, the methods used to deliver a fully automated UD corpus and complications involved. To show its applicability to corpora in different languages, we extend the pipeline and convert a Faroese constituency treebank to a UD corpus. The result is an open-source conversion tool, published under an Apache 2.0 license, applicable to a Penn-style treebank for conversion to a UD corpus, along with the two new UD corpora.",
}

Changelog

• 2023-11-15 v2.13
  • Fixed incorrect subjunctive marking.
• 2023-05-15 v2.12
  • Systematically added definiteness to nouns where missing.
• 2022-11-15 v2.11
  • Validation syntax errors.
• 2021-11-15 v2.9
  • Modified sentence ids in dev and test to make them unique corpus-wide.
• 2020-11-15 v2.7
  • Initial release in Universal Dependencies.

=== Machine-readable metadata (DO NOT REMOVE!) ================================
Data available since: UD v2.7
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Includes text: yes
Genre: fiction bible nonfiction
Lemmas: converted from manual
UPOS: converted from manual
XPOS: manual native
Features: converted from manual
Relations: converted from manual
Contributors: Arnardóttir, Þórunn; Hafsteinsson, Hinrik; Sigurðsson, Einar Freyr; Ingason, Anton Karl; Rögnvaldsson, Eiríkur; Wallenberg, Joel C.
Contributing: elsewhere
Contact: thar@hi.is, hinrik.hafst@gmail.com, einar.freyr.sigurdsson@arnastofnun.is
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