Abstract
Existing natural language processing systems have often been designed with standard texts in mind. However, when these tools are used on the substantially different texts from social media, their performance drops dramatically. One solution is to translate social media data to standard language before processing, this is also called normalization. It is well-known that this improves performance for many natural language processing tasks on social media data. However, little is known about which types of normalization replacements have the most effect. Furthermore, it is unknown what the weaknesses of existing lexical normalization systems are in an extrinsic setting. In this paper, we analyze the effect of manual as well as automatic lexical normalization for dependency parsing. After our analysis, we conclude that for most categories, automatic normalization scores close to manually annotated normalization and that small annotation differences are important to take into consideration when exploiting normalization in a pipeline setup.- Anthology ID:
- D19-5515
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2019)
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Hong Kong, China
- Editors:
- Wei Xu, Alan Ritter, Tim Baldwin, Afshin Rahimi
- Venue:
- WNUT
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 115–120
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/D19-5515
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/D19-5515
- Cite (ACL):
- Rob van der Goot. 2019. An In-depth Analysis of the Effect of Lexical Normalization on the Dependency Parsing of Social Media. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2019), pages 115–120, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- An In-depth Analysis of the Effect of Lexical Normalization on the Dependency Parsing of Social Media (van der Goot, WNUT 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-2023-videos/D19-5515.pdf