Место издания:European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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Аннотация:The Caucasus region is famed for its rich and diverse arrays of languages and language families, often challenging European-centered
views established in traditional linguistics. In this paper, we describe ongoing efforts to improve the coverage of Universal Morphologies
for languages of the Caucasus region. The Universal Morphologies (UniMorph) are a recent community project aiming to complement
the Universal Dependencies which focus on morphosyntax and syntax. We describe the development of UniMorph resources for
Nakh-Daghestanian and Kartvelian languages as a well as for Classical Armenian, we discuss challenges that the complex morphology
of these and related languages poses to the current design of UniMorph, and suggest possibilities to improve the applicability of
UniMorph for languages of the Caucasus region in particular and for low resource languages in general. We also criticize the UniMorph
TSV format for its limited expressiveness, and suggest to complement the existing UniMorph workflow with support for additional
source formats on grounds of Linked Open Data technology