Universal Dependencies is an open community effort to create cross-linguistically consistent treebank annotation for many languages within a dependency-based lexicalist framework. The annotation consists in a linguistically motivated word segmentation; a morphological layer comprising lemmas, universal part-of-speech tags, and standardized morphological features; and a syntactic layer focusing on syntactic relations between predicates, arguments and modifiers. In this paper, we describe version 2 of the guidelines (UD v2), discuss the major changes from UD v1 to UD v2, and give an overview of the currently available treebanks for 90 languages.
@article{arxiv.2004.10643,
title = {Universal Dependencies v2: An Evergrowing Multilingual Treebank Collection},
author = {Joakim Nivre and Marie-Catherine de Marneffe and Filip Ginter and Jan Hajič and Christopher D. Manning and Sampo Pyysalo and Sebastian Schuster and Francis Tyers and Daniel Zeman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.10643},
year = {2020}
}