UD-English-CHILDES: A Collected Resource of Gold and Silver Universal Dependencies Trees for Child Language Interactions

Xiulin Yang, Zhuoxuan Ju, Lanni Bu, Zoey Liu, Nathan Schneider
4/28/2025
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Abstract

CHILDES is a widely used resource of transcribed child and child-directed speech. This paper introduces UD-English-CHILDES, the first officially released Universal Dependencies (UD) treebank. It is derived from previously dependency-annotated CHILDES data, which we harmonize to follow unified annotation principles. The gold-standard trees encompass utterances sampled from 11 children and their caregivers, totaling over 48K sentences (236K tokens). We validate these gold-standard annotations under the UD v2 framework and provide an additional 1M~silver-standard sentences, offering a consistent resource for computational and linguistic research.

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Cite this paper

@article{yang2025udenglishchildes,
  title  = {UD-English-CHILDES: A Collected Resource of Gold and Silver Universal Dependencies Trees for Child Language Interactions},
  author = {Xiulin Yang and Zhuoxuan Ju and Lanni Bu and Zoey Liu and Nathan Schneider},
  year   = {2025},
  eprint = {2504.20304},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20304v3}
}

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