UD_Greek-Cretan

🏛️ UD East Cretan Dialect Treebank

The East Cretan dialect is a variety of Modern Greek primarily used on the island of Crete and by the Cretan diaspora, including communities relocated to Hamidieh in Syria and Western Asia Minor following the 1923 population exchange. The dialect has been shaped by the island's long-term isolation and successive domination by Arabs, Venetians, and Turks, resulting in distinct phonological, morphological, and lexical characteristics.

East Cretan is divided into western and eastern subgroups, with the boundary roughly coinciding with the prefectures of Rethymno and Heraklion. The eastern group is more homogeneous, while the western shows more variation. Unlike many Modern Greek dialects, East Cretan remains actively spoken, serving as the main means of communication in much of the island.

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🗣️ Dataset Summary

This model was trained on the 6th round of the East Cretan dataset, which includes:

• 180 training sentences (2,976 tokens)
• 60 development sentences (1,129 tokens)
• 30 test sentences (523 tokens)

Annotations follow the Universal Dependencies v2 schema for morphological, syntactic, and lemmatization layers.

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📊 Model Performance

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Citation

To cite this work or read more about the training pipeline, see:

Socrates Vakirtzian, Vivian Stamou, Yannis Kazos, Stella Markantonatou. (2024). Dialectal treebanks and their relation with the standard variety: The case of East Cretan and Standard Modern Greek. The Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies (NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025), Tallinn, Estonia, March 2–5, 2025.