# Summary

UD Afrikaans-AfriBooms is a conversion of the AfriBooms Dependency Treebank, originally annotated with a simplified PoS set and dependency relations according to a subset of the Stanford tag set. The corpus consists of public government documents.

# Introduction

UD Afrikaans-AfriBooms is a conversion AfriBooms Dependency Treebank, which is based on the Afrikaans section of the NCHLT Annotated Text Corpora and is available from the South African Language Resource Management Agency, Potchefstroom. We will be working on manually verifying the treebank.

Size of the differents parts:
  - train size =  1315 sentences
  - dev size   =  194 sentences
  - test size  =  425 sentences

# Acknowledgments

The new conversion has been performed by Peter Dirix and Liesbeth Augustinus at the University of Leuven and by Daniel van Niekerk at the Potchefstroom campus of North West University.

# Changelog

* 2020-11-15 v2.7
  * Fixed validation errors coming from new validation scripts, in particular for auxiliaries, copulas, and coordinations.
  * Fixed lemma of 'is' and 'was' to 'wees'
* 2019-05-15 v2.4
  * Fixed validation errors coming from new validation scripts, in particular for auxiliaries, copulas, and coordinations.
* 2018-04-15 v2.2
  * Repository renamed from UD_Afrikaans to UD_Afrikaans-AfriBooms.
* 2017-11-15 v2.1
  * First release in UD

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=== Machine-readable metadata (DO NOT REMOVE!) ================================
Data available since: UD v2.1
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Includes text: yes
Genre: legal nonfiction
Lemmas: converted from manual
UPOS: converted from manual
XPOS: manual native
Features: converted from manual
Relations: converted from manual
Contributors: Dirix, Peter; Augustinus, Liesbeth; van Niekerk, Daniel
Contributing: here
Contact: [email protected], [email protected]
===============================================================================
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