tweeDe – A Universal Dependencies treebank for German tweets

We introduce the first German treebank for Twitter microtext, annotated within the framework of Universal Dependencies. The new treebank includes over 12,000 tokens from over 500 tweets, independently annotated by two human coders. In the paper, we describe the data selection and annotation process and present baseline parsing results for the new testsuite.

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