Towards Better UD Parsing: Deep Contextualized Word Embeddings, Ensemble, and Treebank Concatenation
Abstract
This paper describes our system (HIT-SCIR) submitted to the CoNLL 2018 shared task on Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies. We base our submission on Stanford’s winning system for the CoNLL 2017 shared task and make two effective extensions: 1) incorporating deep contextualized word embeddings into both the part of speech tagger and parser; 2) ensembling parsers trained with different initialization. We also explore different ways of concatenating treebanks for further improvements. Experimental results on the development data show the effectiveness of our methods. In the final evaluation, our system was ranked first according to LAS (75.84%) and outperformed the other systems by a large margin.- Anthology ID:
- K18-2005
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the CoNLL 2018 Shared Task: Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies
- Month:
- October
- Year:
- 2018
- Address:
- Brussels, Belgium
- Venue:
- CoNLL
- SIG:
- SIGNLL
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 55–64
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/K18-2005
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/K18-2005
- Cite (ACL):
- Wanxiang Che, Yijia Liu, Yuxuan Wang, Bo Zheng, and Ting Liu. 2018. Towards Better UD Parsing: Deep Contextualized Word Embeddings, Ensemble, and Treebank Concatenation. In Proceedings of the CoNLL 2018 Shared Task: Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies, pages 55–64, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Towards Better UD Parsing: Deep Contextualized Word Embeddings, Ensemble, and Treebank Concatenation (Che et al., CoNLL 2018)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingestion-script-update/K18-2005.pdf
- Code
- HIT-SCIR/ELMoForManyLangs
- Data
- Universal Dependencies