An integrated architecture for shallow and deep processing

  • Authors:
  • Berthold Crysmann;Anette Frank;Bernd Kiefer;Stefan Müller;Günter Neumann;Jakub Piskorski;Ulrich Schäfer;Melanie Siegel;Hans Uszkoreit;Feiyu Xu;Markus Becker;Hans-Ulrich Krieger

  • Affiliations:
  • DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken, Germany;DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken, Germany;DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken, Germany;DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken, Germany;DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken, Germany;DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken, Germany;DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken, Germany;DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken, Germany;DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken, Germany;DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken, Germany;DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken, Germany;DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ACL '02 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We present an architecture for the integration of shallow and deep NLP components which is aimed at flexible combination of different language technologies for a range of practical current and future applications. In particular, we describe the integration of a high-level HPSG parsing system with different high-performance shallow components, ranging from named entity recognition to chunk parsing and shallow clause recognition. The NLP components enrich a representation of natural language text with layers of new XML meta-information using a single shared data structure, called the text chart. We describe details of the integration methods, and show how information extraction and language checking applications for realworld German text benefit from a deep grammatical analysis.