Coconstructions in spoken data: UD annotation guidelines and first results
Computation and Language
2026-03-31 v1
Abstract
The paper proposes annotation guidelines for syntactic dependencies that span across speaker turns - including collaborative coconstructions proper, wh-question answers, and backchannels - in spoken language treebanks within the Universal Dependencies framework. Two representations are proposed: a speaker-based representation following the segmentation into speech turns, and a dependency-based representation with dependencies across speech turns. New propositions are also put forward to distinguish between reformulations and repairs, and to promote elements in unfinished phrases.
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@article{arxiv.2603.28261,
title = {Coconstructions in spoken data: UD annotation guidelines and first results},
author = {Ludovica Pannitto and Sylvain Kahane and Kaja Dobrovoljc and Elena Battaglia and Bruno Guillaume and Caterina Mauri and Eleonora Zucchini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.28261},
year = {2026}
}