# The Persian Dependency Treebank Made Universal

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10205 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2009.10205/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 21 Sep 2020.

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [How Universal is Genre in Universal Dependencies?](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.04971/) (2021)
- [Informal Persian Universal Dependency Treebank](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2201.03679/) (2022)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We describe an automatic method for converting the Persian Dependency Treebank (Rasooli et al, 2013) to Universal Dependencies. This treebank contains 29107 sentences. Our experiments along with manual linguistic analysis show that our data is more compatible with Universal Dependencies than the Uppsala Persian Universal Dependency Treebank (Seraji et al., 2016), and is larger in size and more diverse in vocabulary. Our data brings in a labeled attachment F-score of 85.2 in supervised parsing. Our delexicalized Persian-to-English parser transfer experiments show that a parsing model trained on our data is ~2% absolutely more accurate than that of Seraji et al. (2016) in terms of labeled attachment score.