splitSVM: fast, space-efficient, non-heuristic, polynomial kernel computation for NLP applications

  • Authors:
  • Yoav Goldberg;Michael Elhadad

  • Affiliations:
  • Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel;Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel

  • Venue:
  • HLT-Short '08 Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Human Language Technologies: Short Papers
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We present a fast, space efficient and non-heuristic method for calculating the decision function of polynomial kernel classifiers for NLP applications. We apply the method to the MaltParser system, resulting in a Java parser that parses over 50 sentences per second on modest hardware without loss of accuracy (a 30 time speedup over existing methods). The method implementation is available as the open-source splitSVM Java library.