On the role of morphosyntactic features in Hindi dependency parsing

  • Authors:
  • Bharat Ram Ambati;Samar Husain;Joakim Nivre;Rajeev Sangal

  • Affiliations:
  • IIIT-Hyderabad, India;IIIT-Hyderabad, India;Uppsala University, Sweden;IIIT-Hyderabad, India

  • Venue:
  • SPMRL '10 Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 First Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically-Rich Languages
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper analyzes the relative importance of different linguistic features for data-driven dependency parsing of Hindi, using a feature pool derived from two state-of-the-art parsers. The analysis shows that the greatest gain in accuracy comes from the addition of morpho-syntactic features related to case, tense, aspect and modality. Combining features from the two parsers, we achieve a labeled attachment score of 76.5%, which is 2 percentage points better than the previous state of the art. We finally provide a detailed error analysis and suggest possible improvements to the parsing scheme.