Parse forest computation of expected governors

  • Authors:
  • Helmut Schmid;Mats Rooth

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany;Cornell University, Morrill Hall, Ithaca, NY

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

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Abstract

In a headed tree, each terminal word can be uniquely labeled with a governing word and grammatical relation. This labeling is a summary of a syntactic analysis which eliminates detail, reflects aspects of semantics, and for some grammatical relations (such as subject of finite verb) is nearly uncontroversial. We define a notion of expected governor markup, which sums vectors indexed by governors and scaled by probabilistic tree weights. The quantity is computed in a parse forest representation of the set of tree analyses for a given sentence, using vector sums and scaling by inside probability and flow.