High precision extraction of grammatical relations

  • Authors:
  • John Carroll;Ted Briscoe

  • Affiliations:
  • Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex Falmer, Brighton, UK;Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

  • Venue:
  • New developments in parsing technology
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

A parsing system returning analyses in the form of sets of grammatical relations can obtain high precision if it hypothesises a particular grammatical relation only when it is certain that the relation is correct. We operationalise this technique -in a statistical parser using a manually-developed wide-coverage grammar of English - by only returning relations that form part of all analyses licensed by the grammar. We observe an increase in precision from 75% to over 90% (at the cost of a reduction in recall) on a test corpus of naturally-occurring text.