UD_French-Sequoia

Treebank card from UD release 2.18: metadata and texts come from UD_French-Sequoia/README.md; size is counted by streaming the .conllu files and checked against the release stats.xml. Generated by tools/treebanks build; do not edit by hand. Papers: Papers: UD_French-Sequoia; seeds: seeds/; converter: convert.md.

Field	Value
UD name	UD_French-Sequoia
Language	French (`fr`)
Family	IE
Treebank code	`fr_sequoia`
UD page	universaldependencies.org/treebanks/fr sequoia/index.html
License	LGPL-LR
Genres	wiki, medical, news, nonfiction
Text in data	yes
Parallel	no
In UD since	UD v2.0
Authors	Marie Candito; Djamé Seddah; Guy Perrier; Bruno Guillaume
Contact	bruno.guillaume@inria.fr
Development	outside the UD repo (elsewhere): fixes go to the source or the converter

Annotation layers

Layer	Origin
Lemmas	converted from manual
UPOS	converted from manual
XPOS	not available
Features	converted from manual
Relations	converted from manual

UD scale: manual native — annotated by hand directly in UD; converted from manual — converted from manual annotation in another scheme; converted with corrections — converted and partly corrected by hand; automatic with corrections — automatic, with partial manual corrections; automatic — automatic; not available — the layer is absent.

Size

Split	Sentences	Tokens	Words	Multiword tokens
train	2 231	49 142	50 502	1 360
dev	412	9 717	9 999	282
test	456	9 734	10 044	310
total	3 099	68 593	70 545	1 952

Tokens are surface tokens (Spanish vámonos is one), words are syntactic words (vamos + nos); multiword tokens are those split into several words; empty nodes are the N.M nodes of the enhanced graph.

Summary

UD_French-Sequoia is an automatic conversion of the SUD_French-Sequoia treebank, which comes from the former corpus French Sequoia corpus.

Introduction

UD_French-Sequoia is an automatic conversion of the SUD_French-Sequoia treebank, which comes from the former corpus French Sequoia corpus. The French Sequoia corpus was converted in April 2023 to SUD with the Grew rewriting system described here. Since this date, the corpus is maintained in SUD and converted to UD.

Origin

The first version of the Sequoia Corpus was presented in (Candito & Seddah, 2012).

Splitting

The whole corpus contains 70,546 tokens in 3,099 sentences.

In UD_French-Sequoia, data were randomly split into:

fr_sequoia-ud-test.conllu: 10,044 tokens in 456 sentences

fr_sequoia-ud-dev.conllu: 9,999 tokens in 412 sentences

fr_sequoia-ud-train.conllu: 50,503 tokens in 2,231 sentences

Genres

The original sentences of the corpus are taken from:

French Europarl (sent_id prefix: Europar.550)

Wikipédia Fr (sent_id prefix: frwiki_50.1000)

Newspaper Est Républicain (sent_id prefix: annodis.er)

European Medicines Agency (sent_id prefix: emea-fr-dev and emea-fr-test)

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/treebanks/fr/sequoia/