A New Representation for Span-based CCG Parsing

Yoshihide Kato, Shigeki Matsubara


Abstract
This paper proposes a new representation for CCG derivations. CCG derivations are represented as trees whose nodes are labeled with categories strictly restricted by CCG rule schemata. This characteristic is not suitable for span-based parsing models because they predict node labels independently. In other words, span-based models may generate invalid CCG derivations that violate the rule schemata. Our proposed representation decomposes CCG derivations into several independent pieces and prevents the span-based parsing models from violating the schemata. Our experimental result shows that an off-the-shelf span-based parser with our representation is comparable with previous CCG parsers.
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2021.emnlp-main.826
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Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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November
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2021
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Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
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Marie-Francine Moens, Xuanjing Huang, Lucia Specia, Scott Wen-tau Yih
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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10579–10584
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.826
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.826
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Yoshihide Kato and Shigeki Matsubara. 2021. A New Representation for Span-based CCG Parsing. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 10579–10584, Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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