Universal Dependencies
Brazilian Festival

The 2nd Edition of the Universal Dependencies Brazilian Festival (UDFest-BR 2023) will take place with the 14th Symposium in Information and Human Language Technology (STIL 2023). It is a forum in which researchers involved with the study and application of the Universal Dependencies (UD) model, along with its adaptation to Portuguese, can meet and discuss best practices and strategies, as well as problems and solutions related to this topic.

UD is a cross-language international proposal for grammatical annotation (morphosyntactic tags, lexical/morphosyntactic features and syntactic dependencies) that resulted from the efforts of an open community of hundreds of researchers. Building upon a common framework, the model captures idiosyncrasies and similarities between different languages, aiming to foster contrastive linguistic studies, along with the development of multilingual technologies for Natural Language Processing (NLP). In recent years, this model has drawn considerable attention from the NLP community. Currently, there are nearly 200 UD annotated corpora available in more than 100 languages.

Although there are some annotated corpora and lexical resources for Portuguese, computational linguistic research involving UD and this language is still limited. As such, this workshop helps to fill in this gap, giving more visibility to current efforts in this area and fostering new initiatives and collaborations.