# A UD Treebank for Bohairic Coptic

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18386 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.18386/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 4 of its 34 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 25 Apr 2025.

## Builds on (most cited first, 4 of 4)

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- [MicroBERT: Effective Training of Low-resource Monolingual BERTs through Parameter Reduction and Multitask Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.12510/) (2022)
- [A Second Wave of UD Hebrew Treebanking and Cross-Domain Parsing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.07873/) (2022)
- [A Collaborative Ecosystem for Digital Coptic Studies](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1912.05082/) (2019)

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Semantic Alignment across Ancient Egyptian Language Stages via Normalization-Aware Multitask Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.24258/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Despite recent advances in digital resources for other Coptic dialects, especially Sahidic, Bohairic Coptic, the main Coptic dialect for pre-Mamluk, late Byzantine Egypt, and the contemporary language of the Coptic Church, remains critically under-resourced. This paper presents and evaluates the first syntactically annotated corpus of Bohairic Coptic, sampling data from a range of works, including Biblical text, saints' lives and Christian ascetic writing. We also explore some of the main differences we observe compared to the existing UD treebank of Sahidic Coptic, the classical dialect of the language, and conduct joint and cross-dialect parsing experiments, revealing the unique nature of Bohairic as a related, but distinct variety from the more often studied Sahidic.