Comparing State-of-the-art Dependency Parsers on the Italian Stanford Dependency Treebank

In the last decade, many accurate dependency parsers have been made publicly available. It can be difficult for non-experts to select a good off-the-shelf parser among those available. This is even more true when working on languages different from English, because parsers have been tested mainly on English treebanks. Our analysis is focused on Italian and relies on the Italian Stanford Dependency Treebank (ISDT). This work is a contribution to help non-experts understand how difficult it is to apply a specific dependency parser to a new language/treebank and choose a parser that meets their needs.