UD Annotatrix: An Annotation Tool For Universal Dependencies

In this paper we introduce the UD Annotatrix annotation tool for manual annotation of Universal Dependencies. This tool has been designed with the aim that it should be tailored to the needs of the Universal Dependencies (UD) community, including that it should operate in fully-offline mode, and is freely-available under the GNU GPL licence. In this paper, we provide some background to the tool, an overview of its development, and background on how it works. We compare it with some other widely-used tools which are used for Universal Dependencies annotation, describe some features unique to UD Annotatrix, and finally outline some avenues for future work and provide a few concluding remarks

Wick Farm Cottage, Heddington Wick Common, Heddington, Wiltshire: tree-ring analysis of timbers

Dendrochronological analysis was undertaken on all seven of the timbers sampled from two medieval phases at Wick Farm Cottage. This resulted in the production of two site chronologies, HWWFSQ01 and HWWFSQ02. These comprise three and two samples with overall lengths of 178 years and 67 years respectively. The first site chronology dates to AD 1158–1335, whilst the second chronology is undated. The dated samples, thought to be associated with the earliest medieval phase, indicate a programme of felling, and hence likely construction, in the mid-AD 1330s

Manor Farm Barn, Kingston Deverill, Wiltshire; tree-ring analysis of timbers

Dendrochronological analysis was undertaken on 16 samples from the barn at Manor Farm. This resulted in the production of two site sequences, KDMBSQ01 and KDMBSQ02. The former comprises eight samples with an overall length of 150 rings and the latter two samples with an overall length of 81 rings. Site sequence KDMBSQ01 is dated as spanning the years AD 1260–1409. Site sequence KDMBSQ02 is undated. A single sample, KDM-B09, with an overall length of 113 rings is dated as spanning the years AD 1371–1483. Five samples remain ungrouped and undated. The results indicate that the timbers used in the primary construction of the barn were probably all felled in the last few years of the first decade of the fifteenth century. A single dated arcade post from the southernmost truss indicates that the building underwent repairs or modifications just under a century later, in the last few years of the fifteenth century or, the first few years of the sixteenth century

OmniLingo: Listening- and speaking-based language learning

In this demo paper we present OmniLingo, an architecture for distributing data for listening- and speaking-based language learning applications and a demonstration client built using the architecture. The architecture is based on the Interplanetary Filesystem (IPFS) and puts at the forefront user sovereignty over data

Data-Driven Morphological Analysis for Uralic Languages

This paper describes an initial set of experiments in data-driven morpholog-ical analysis of Uralic languages. The paper differs from previous work in thatour work covers both lemmatization and generating ambiguous analyses. Whilehand-crafted finite-state transducers represent the state of the art in morpholog-ical analysis for most Uralic languages, we believe that there is a place for data-driven approaches, especially with respect to making up for lack of completenessin the шlexicon. We present results for nine Uralic languages that show that, atleast for basic nominal morphology for six out of the nine languages, data-drivenmethods can achieve an F-score of over 90%, providing results that approach thoseof finite-state techniques. We also compare our system to an earlier approach toFinnish data-driven morphological analysis (Silfverberg and Hulden,2018) andshow that our system outperforms this baseline.Peer reviewe