Incremental LTAG parsing

  • Authors:
  • Libin Shen;Aravind K. Joshi

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA;University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

  • Venue:
  • HLT '05 Proceedings of the conference on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We present a very efficient statistical incremental parser for LTAG-spinal, a variant of LTAG. The parser supports the full adjoining operation, dynamic predicate coordination, and non-projective dependencies, with a formalism of provably stronger generative capacity as compared to CFG. Using gold standard POS tags as input, on section 23 of the PTB, the parser achieves an f-score of 89.3% for syntactic dependency defined on LTAG derivation trees, which are deeper than the dependencies extracted from PTB alone with head rules (for example, in Magerman's style).