pushing this forward little by little, perhaps?

[bansp]

Seeing 138 other people observing this spot I thought I'd ask: does anyone see a chance of something positive happening in the direction of Nepali represented in UD?

Trying to speculate wrt kinds of student projects that could push things forward here:

• Would the creation of a Parallel-UD dataset constitute a relatively feasible goal for an M.A. project? There's a lot of givens there, the sequence of tasks is relatively clear. Well, even if it's half of a standard PUD dataset, it would be start. Or make it a two-person project, with some sub-tasks assigned to a single student, so that they would each have something to write about.
• Or, harvesting a small, appropriately licensed amount of Nepali data from the Web, cleaning it and processing at least up to the lemma + POS level? That could be too ambitious for a B.A. project, but an M.A. -- why not, right?

Just thinking aloud. Students representing under-resourced languages "happen" to many of us. Something like that might be a start of an academic career (for better or for worse, heh) and offer a useful seed for further expansion of the dataset.

[dan-zeman]

If you have such a student, please go ahead and engage them :-)