Exploiting auxiliary distributions in stochastic unification-based grammars

  • Authors:
  • Mark Johnson;Stefan Riezler

  • Affiliations:
  • Brown University;Universität Stuttgart

  • Venue:
  • NAACL 2000 Proceedings of the 1st North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics conference
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

This paper describes a method for estimating conditional probability distributions over the parses of "unification-based" grammars which can utilize auxiliary distributions that are estimated by other means. We show how this can be used to incorporate information about lexical selectional preferences gathered from other sources into Stochastic "Unification-based" Grammars (SUBGs). While we apply this estimator to a Stochastic Lexical-Functional Grammar, the method is general, and should be applicable to stochastic versions of HPSGs, categorial grammars and transformational grammars.