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Annotation of Multiword Expressions in the SUK 1.0 Training Corpus of Slovene: Lessons Learned and Future Steps

Recent progress within the UniDive COST Action on the compilation of universal guidelines for the annotation of non-verbal multiword expressions (MWEs) has provided an opportunity to improve and expand the work previously done within the PARSEME COST Action on the annotation of verbal multiword expressions in the SUK 1.0 Training Corpus of Slovene. A segment of the training corpus had already been annotated with verbal MWEs during PARSEME. As a follow-up and part of the New Grammar of Modern Standard Slovene (NSSSS) project, the same segment was annotated with non verbal MWEs, resulting in approximately 6, 500 sentences annotated by at least three annotators (described in Gantar et al., 2019). Since then, the entire SUK 1.0 was also manually annotated with UD part-of-speech tags. In the paper, we present an analysis of the MWE annotations exported from the corpus along with their part-of-speech structures through the lens of Universal Dependencies. We discuss the usefulness of the data in terms of potential insight for the further compilation and fine-tuning of guidelines particularly for non-verbal MWEs, and conclude with our plans for future work.