UD_Sinhala-STB
Treebank card from UD release 2.18: metadata and texts come from UD_Sinhala-STB/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_Sinhala-STB; seeds: seeds/; converter: convert.md.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| UD name | UD_Sinhala-STB |
| Language | Sinhala (si) |
| Family | IE |
| Treebank code | si_stb |
| UD page | universaldependencies.org/treebanks/si stb/index.html |
| License | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Genres | fiction, government, news, nonfiction, web |
| Text in data | yes |
| Parallel | no |
| In UD since | UD v2.11 |
| Authors | Liyanage Chamila; Sarveswaran Kengatharaiyer |
| Contact | chamila.82@gmail.com, sarves@univ.jfn.ac.lk |
| Development | outside the UD repo (elsewhere): fixes go to the source or the converter |
Annotation layers
| Layer | Origin |
|---|---|
| Lemmas | manual native |
| UPOS | manual native |
| XPOS | manual native |
| Features | manual native |
| Relations | manual native |
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 | Empty nodes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| test | 100 | 880 | 880 | 0 | 0 |
| total | 100 | 880 | 880 | 0 | 0 |
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. Splits train, dev are absent from the release.
Summary
This treebank consists contemporary written Sinhala text taken from a 10M corpus maintained by UCSC, Sri Lanka. The corpus contains novels, short stories, Sinhala translations, critiques and Sinhala newspapers.
Introduction
The Sinhala language is an Ido-aryan language spoken by about 20 million people around the world. It is one of the two official languages in Sri Lanka spoken by 75% of its population. Sinhala has been influenced by Portuguese, Dutch, English and Tamil languages in addition to Sanskrit and Pali.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/treebanks/si/stb/