Actually, in the majority of the Conll corpora available online this column is not filled. Example of such file is presented below:
Many existing Conll files are not usable with our tool currently.
Solution
If no dependencies are found in the respective column, e.g. "" or "_", then you need to use another column to generate features (the two columns which directly precede the column you currently use).
Problem
The CoNLL 2 TextContext extractor currently takes the values of dependencies from the column with the, so called, enhanced dependencies. However, very often column is not filled like in the file below: http://panchenko.me/data/joint/corpora/cc16-conll-copp-sample-newlines-no-enhanced.csv.gz
Actually, in the majority of the Conll corpora available online this column is not filled. Example of such file is presented below:
Many existing Conll files are not usable with our tool currently.
Solution
If no dependencies are found in the respective column, e.g. "" or "_", then you need to use another column to generate features (the two columns which directly precede the column you currently use).