Learning phrasal categories

  • Authors:
  • William P. Headden, III;Eugene Charniak;Mark Johnson

  • Affiliations:
  • Brown University, Providence, RI;Brown University, Providence, RI;Brown University, Providence, RI

  • Venue:
  • EMNLP '06 Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this work we learn clusters of contextual annotations for non-terminals in the Penn Treebank. Perhaps the best way to think about this problem is to contrast our work with that of Klein and Manning (2003). That research used tree-transformations to create various grammars with different contextual annotations on the non-terminals. These grammars were then used in conjunction with a CKY parser. The authors explored the space of different annotation combinations by hand. Here we try to automate the process -- to learn the "right" combination automatically. Our results are not quite as good as those carefully created by hand, but they are close (84.8 vs 85.7).