Old French Dependency Parsing: Results of Two Parsers Analysed from a Linguistic Point of View

Achim Stein


Abstract
The treatment of medieval texts is a particular challenge for parsers. I compare how two dependency parsers, one graph-based, the other transition-based, perform on Old French, facing some typical problems of medieval texts: graphical variation, relatively free word order, and syntactic variation of several parameters over a diachronic period of about 300 years. Both parsers were trained and evaluated on the “Syntactic Reference Corpus of Medieval French” (SRCMF), a manually annotated dependency treebank. I discuss the relation between types of parsers and types of language, as well as the differences of the analyses from a linguistic point of view.
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L16-1112
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Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
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May
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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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707–713
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Achim Stein. 2016. Old French Dependency Parsing: Results of Two Parsers Analysed from a Linguistic Point of View. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 707–713, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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