Getting more from morphology in multilingual dependency parsing

  • Authors:
  • Matt Hohensee;Emily M. Bender

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Washington, Seattle WA;University of Washington, Seattle WA

  • Venue:
  • NAACL HLT '12 Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We propose a linguistically motivated set of features to capture morphological agreement and add them to the MSTParser dependency parser. Compared to the built-in morphological feature set, ours is both much smaller and more accurate across a sample of 20 morphologically annotated treebanks. We find increases in accuracy of up to 5.3% absolute. While some of this results from the feature set capturing information unrelated to morphology, there is still significant improvement, up to 4.6% absolute, due to the agreement model.