Abstract
HDT-UD, the largest German UD treebank by a large margin, as well as the German-LIT treebank, currently do not analyze preposition-determiner contractions such as zum (= zu dem, “to the”) as multi-word tokens, which is inconsistent both with UD guidelines as well as other German UD corpora (GSD and PUD). In this paper, we show that harmonizing corpora with regard to this highly frequent phenomenon using a lookup-table based approach leads to a considerable increase in automatic parsing performance.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.udw-1.11
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2020)
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Barcelona, Spain (Online)
- Editors:
- Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Miryam de Lhoneux, Joakim Nivre, Sebastian Schuster
- Venue:
- UDW
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 94–98
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.udw-1.11
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Stefan Grünewald and Annemarie Friedrich. 2020. Unifying the Treatment of Preposition-Determiner Contractions in German Universal Dependencies Treebanks. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2020), pages 94–98, Barcelona, Spain (Online). Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Unifying the Treatment of Preposition-Determiner Contractions in German Universal Dependencies Treebanks (Grünewald & Friedrich, UDW 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/emnlp22-frontmatter/2020.udw-1.11.pdf