Automatic adaptation of annotation standards for dependency parsing: using projected treebank as source corpus

  • Authors:
  • Wenbin Jiang;Qun Liu

  • Affiliations:
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • IWPT '09 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parsing Technologies
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We describe for dependency parsing an annotation adaptation strategy, which can automatically transfer the knowledge from a source corpus with a different annotation standard to the desired target parser, with the supervision by a target corpus annotated in the desired standard. Furthermore, instead of a hand-annotated one, a projected treebank derived from a bilingual corpus is used as the source corpus. This benefits the resource-scarce languages which haven't different handannotated treebanks. Experiments show that the target parser gains significant improvement over the baseline parser trained on the target corpus only, when the target corpus is smaller.