k-best A* parsing

  • Authors:
  • Adam Pauls;Dan Klein

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California, Berkeley;University of California, Berkeley

  • Venue:
  • ACL '09 Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP: Volume 2 - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

A* parsing makes 1-best search efficient by suppressing unlikely 1-best items. Existing k-best extraction methods can efficiently search for top derivations, but only after an exhaustive 1-best pass. We present a unified algorithm for k-best A* parsing which preserves the efficiency of k-best extraction while giving the speed-ups of A* methods. Our algorithm produces optimal k-best parses under the same conditions required for optimality in a 1-best A* parser. Empirically, optimal k-best lists can be extracted significantly faster than with other approaches, over a range of grammar types.