Classifying chart cells for quadratic complexity context-free inference

  • Authors:
  • Brian Roark;Kristy Hollingshead

  • Affiliations:
  • Oregon Health & Science University, Beaverton, Oregon;Oregon Health & Science University, Beaverton, Oregon

  • Venue:
  • COLING '08 Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In this paper, we consider classifying word positions by whether or not they can either start or end multi-word constituents. This provides a mechanism for "closing" chart cells during context-free inference, which is demonstrated to improve efficiency and accuracy when used to constrain the well-known Charniak parser. Additionally, we present a method for "closing" a sufficient number of chart cells to ensure quadratic worst-case complexity of context-free inference. Empirical results show that this O(n2) bound can be achieved without impacting parsing accuracy.