A language--independent shallow--parser compiler

  • Authors:
  • Alexandra Kinyon

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Pennsylvania

  • Venue:
  • ACL '01 Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We present a rule--based shallow--parser compiler, which allows to generate a robust shallow-parser for any language, even in the absence of training data, by resorting to a very limited number of rules which aim at identifying constituent boundaries. We contrast our approach to other approaches used for shallow--parsing (i.e. finite-state and probabilistic methods). We present an evaluation of our tool for English (Penn Treebank) and for French (newspaper corpus "LeMonde") for several tasks (NP-chunking & "deeper" parsing).