Universal Dependencies is a project that seeks to develop cross-linguistically consistent treebank annotation for many languages, with the goal of facilitating multilingual parser development, cross-lingual learning, and parsing research from a language typology perspective. The annotation scheme is based on (universal) Stanford dependencies (de Marneffe et al., 2006, 2008, 2014), Google universal part-of-speech tags (Petrov et al., 2012), and the Interset interlingua for morphosyntactic tagsets (Zeman, 2008).

This release is special in that the treebanks will be used as training/development data in the CoNLL 2017 shared task (http://universaldependencies.org/conll17/). Test data are not released, except for the few treebanks that do not take part in the shared task. 64 treebanks will be in the shared task, and they correspond to the following 45 languages: Ancient Greek, Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Gothic, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Norwegian, Old Church Slavonic, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur and Vietnamese.

This release fixes a bug in http://hdl.handle.net/11234/1-1976. Changed files: ud-tools-v2.0.tgz (conllu_to_text.pl, conllu_to_conllx.pl; added text_without_spaces.pl), ud-treebanks-conll2017.tgz (fi_ftb-ud-train.txt, he-ud-train.txt, it-ud-train.txt, pt_br-ud-train.txt, es-ud-train.txt) and ud-treebanks-v2.0.tgz (fi_ftb-ud-train.txt, he-ud-train.txt, it-ud-train.txt, pt_br-ud-train.txt, es-ud-train.txt, ar_nyuad-ud-dev.txt, ar_nyuad-ud-test.txt, ar_nyuad-ud-train.txt, cop-ud-dev.txt, cop-ud-test.txt, cop-ud-train.txt, sa-ud-dev.txt, sa-ud-test.txt, sa-ud-train.txt).