Sample selection for statistical grammar induction

  • Authors:
  • Rebecca Hwa

  • Affiliations:
  • Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • EMNLP '00 Proceedings of the 2000 Joint SIGDAT conference on Empirical methods in natural language processing and very large corpora: held in conjunction with the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Volume 13
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Corpus-based grammar induction relies on using many hand-parsed sentences as training examples. However, the construction of a training corpus with detailed syntactic analysis for every sentence is a labor-intensive task. We propose to use sample selection methods to minimize the amount of annotation needed in the training data, thereby reducing the workload of the human annotators. This paper shows that the amount of annotated training data can be reduced by 36% without degrading the quality of the induced grammars.