Developing Universal Dependency Treebanks for Magahi and Braj

TL;DR

This paper presents the development of the first universal dependency treebanks for the low-resource Indian languages Magahi and Braj, providing foundational linguistic data for NLP research.

Contribution

It introduces annotated treebanks for Magahi and Braj based on the Universal Dependencies framework, including detailed linguistic features and dependency relationships.

Findings

Treebanks contain 945 (Magahi) and 500 (Braj) sentences.

Linguistic analysis of dependency relationships in both languages.

Dataset will be publicly available on UD repository.

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss the development of treebanks for two low-resourced Indian languages - Magahi and Braj based on the Universal Dependencies framework. The Magahi treebank contains 945 sentences and Braj treebank around 500 sentences marked with their lemmas, part-of-speech, morphological features and universal dependencies. This paper gives a description of the different dependency relationship found in the two languages and give some statistics of the two treebanks. The dataset will be made publicly available on Universal Dependency (UD) repository (https://github.com/UniversalDependencies/UD_Magahi-MGTB/tree/master) in the next(v2.10) release.