Forest-guided supertagger training

  • Authors:
  • Yao-zhong Zhang;Takuya Matsuzaki;Jun'ichi Tsujii

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Tokyo;University of Tokyo;University of Tokyo and University of Manchester and National Centre for Text Mining

  • Venue:
  • COLING '10 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Supertagging is an important technique for deep syntactic analysis. A supertagger is usually trained independently of the parser using a sequence labeling method. This presents an inconsistent training objective between the supertagger and the parser. In this paper, we propose a forest-guided supertagger training method to alleviate this problem by incorporating global grammar constraints into the supertagging process using a CFG-filter. It also provides an approach to make the supertagger and the parser more tightly integrated. The experiment shows that using the forest-guided trained supertagger, the parser got an absolute 0.68% improvement from baseline in F-score for predicate-argument relation recognition accuracy and achieved a competitive result of 89.31% with a faster parsing speed, compared to a state-of-the-art HPSG parser.