Correcting Errors in a Treebank Based on Tree Mining

Kanta Suzuki, Yoshihide Kato, Shigeki Matsubara

Abstract
This paper provides a new method to correct annotation errors in a treebank. The previous error correction method constructs a pseudo parallel corpus where incorrect partial parse trees are paired with correct ones, and extracts error correction rules from the parallel corpus. By applying these rules to a treebank, the method corrects errors. However, this method does not achieve wide coverage of error correction. To achieve wide coverage, our method adopts a different approach. In our method, we consider that an infrequent pattern which can be transformed to a frequent one is an annotation error pattern. Based on a tree mining technique, our method seeks such infrequent tree patterns, and constructs error correction rules each of which consists of an infrequent pattern and a corresponding frequent pattern. We conducted an experiment using the Penn Treebank. We obtained 1,987 rules which are not constructed by the previous method, and the rules achieved good precision.
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L16-1244
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Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
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May
Year:
2016
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Portorož, Slovenia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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1540–1545
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https://aclanthology.org/L16-1244
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Kanta Suzuki, Yoshihide Kato, and Shigeki Matsubara. 2016. Correcting Errors in a Treebank Based on Tree Mining. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 1540–1545, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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