Organizing Committee

Chair: Jan Hajič, Charles University, Prague

Management group:

  • Daniel Zeman, Charles University, Prague
  • Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University
  • Filip Ginter, University of Turku
  • Slav Petrov, Google
  • Milan Straka, Charles University, Prague
  • Martin Popel, Charles University, Prague
  • Eduard Bejček, Charles University, Prague (Shared Task Proceedings Volume Publication Chair)

TIRA support:

  • Martin Potthast, University of Weimar

Support group:

  • Christopher Manning, Stanford University
  • Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Ohio State University
  • Yoav Goldberg, Bar Ilan University
  • Reut Tsarfaty, Open University of Israel
  • Sampo Pyysalo, University of Cambridge
  • Francis Tyers, UiT / The Arctic U. of Norway
  • Jenna Kanerva, University of Turku
  • Lilja Øvrelid, University of Oslo
  • Giuseppe Celano, University of Leipzig
  • Miguel Ballesteros, IBM Research
  • Çağrı Çöltekin, University of Tübingen
  • Tommi Pirinen, University of Hamburg
  • Paola Merlo, University of Geneva
  • Anssi Yli-Jyrä, University of Helsinki
  • Özlem Çetinoğlu, University of Stuttgart
  • Jon Dehdari, DFKI and University of Saarland
  • Juhani Luotolahti, University of Turku

Data Providers

We are immensely grateful to the maintainers and contributors of the Universal Dependencies treebanks used in this shared task. In addition, we wish to thank the following people who did a terrific job in creating extra data specifically for the shared task (but publicly available after the task).

Raw Data from the Web and Word Embeddings

  • Filip Ginter, University of Turku
  • Juhani Luotolahti, University of Turku
  • Milan Straka, Charles University

Surprise Languages

  • Lene Antonsen, The Arctic U. of Norway (North Sámi)
  • Elena Badmaeva, University of the Basque Country (Buryat)
  • Memduh Gökırmak, Istanbul Technical University (Kurmanji)
  • Anna Nedoluzhko, Charles University (Upper Sorbian)
  • Trond Trosterud, UiT / The Arctic U. of Norway (North Sámi)
  • Francis Tyers, UiT / The Arctic U. of Norway (Buryat, Kurmanji, North Sámi)
  • Daniel Zeman, Charles University (Upper Sorbian)

Parallel Test Sets

15 languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish) were processed by teams from DFKI and text & form (translation), Google (annotation) and the Universal Dependencies community (UD v2 conversion).

3 languages (Czech, Finnish and Swedish) were translated and annotated by other teams (Charles University, University of Turku and Uppsala University, respectively).

DFKI leads:

  • Hans Uszkoreit
  • Aljoscha Burchardt
  • Vivien Macketanz

text & form leads:

  • Kim Harris
  • Katrin Marheinecke

Google leads:

  • Tolga Kayadelen
  • Mohammed Attia
  • Slav Petrov
  • Ali Elkahky
  • Zhuoran Yu
  • Emily Pitler

  • Saran Lertpradit

  • Esha Banerjee (Hindi)
  • Hector Fernandez Alcalde (Spanish)
  • Jesse Kirchner (English)
  • Sookyoung Kwak (Korean)
  • Tatiana Lando (Russian)
  • Josie Li (Chinese)
  • Michael Mandl (German)
  • Ruli Manurung (Indonesian)
  • Gustavo Mendonça (Portuguese)
  • Rattima Nitisaroj (Thai)
  • Atsuko Shimada (Japanese)
  • Antonio Stella (Italian)
  • Jana Strnadová (French)

Universal Dependencies community:

  • Martin Popel, Charles University (conversion lead)

  • Daniel Zeman, Charles University (conversion; Czech, German, Hindi)

  • Silvie Cinková, Charles University (Czech)
  • Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Ohio State University (French)
  • Valeria de Paiva, Nuance Communications (Portuguese)
  • Kira Droganova, Charles University (Russian)
  • Filip Ginter, University of Turku (Finnish)
  • Nizar Habash, New York University Abu Dhabi (Arabic)
  • Jan Hajič, Charles University (Czech)
  • Jan Hajič jr., Charles University (Czech)
  • Jaroslava Hlaváčová, Charles University (Czech)
  • Hiroshi Kanayama, IBM Research Japan (Japanese)
  • Jenna Kanerva, University of Turku (Finnish)
  • Václava Kettnerová, Charles University (Czech)
  • Herman Leung, City University of Hong Kong (Chinese)
  • Christopher Manning, Stanford University (English)
  • Héctor Martínez Alonso, INRIA – Paris 7 (Spanish)
  • Anna Missilä, University of Turku (Finnish)
  • Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University (Swedish)
  • Stina Ojala, University of Turku (Finnish)
  • Siva Reddy, Stanford University (English)
  • Manuela Sanguinetti, University of Turin (Italian)
  • Sebastian Schuster, Stanford University (English)
  • Maria Simi, University of Pisa (Italian)
  • Dima Taji, New York University Abu Dhabi (Arabic)
  • Francis Tyers, UiT / The Arctic U. of Norway (Turkish)
  • Zdeňka Urešová, Charles University (Czech)