Scaling Graph-Based Dependency Parsing with Arc Vectorization and Attention-Based Refinement

Nicolas Floquet, Joseph Le Roux, Nadi Tomeh, Thierry Charnois


Abstract
We propose a novel architecture for graph-based dependency parsing that explicitly constructs vectors, from which both arcs and labels are scored. Our method addresses key limitations of the standard two-pipeline approach by unifying arc scoring and labeling into a single network, reducing scalability issues caused by the information bottleneck and lack of parameter sharing. Additionally, our architecture overcomes limited arc interactions with transformer layers to efficiently simulate higher-order dependencies. Experiments on PTB and UD show that our model outperforms state-of-the-art parsers in both accuracy and efficiency.
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2025.naacl-short.60
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Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 2: Short Papers)
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April
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2025
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Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Luis Chiruzzo, Alan Ritter, Lu Wang
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Nicolas Floquet, Joseph Le Roux, Nadi Tomeh, and Thierry Charnois. 2025. Scaling Graph-Based Dependency Parsing with Arc Vectorization and Attention-Based Refinement. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 722–734, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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