Getting the most out of transition-based dependency parsing

  • Authors:
  • Jinho D. Choi;Martha Palmer

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Colorado at Boulder;University of Colorado at Boulder

  • Venue:
  • HLT '11 Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: short papers - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This paper suggests two ways of improving transition-based, non-projective dependency parsing. First, we add a transition to an existing non-projective parsing algorithm, so it can perform either projective or non-projective parsing as needed. Second, we present a bootstrapping technique that narrows down discrepancies between gold-standard and automatic parses used as features. The new addition to the algorithm shows a clear advantage in parsing speed. The bootstrapping technique gives a significant improvement to parsing accuracy, showing near state-of-the-art performance with respect to other parsing approaches evaluated on the same data set.