Abstract
One of the most pressing issues in discontinuous constituency transition-based parsing is that the relevant information for parsing decisions could be located in any part of the stack or the buffer. In this paper, we propose a solution to this problem by replacing the structured perceptron model with a recursive neural model that computes a global representation of the configuration, therefore allowing even the most remote parts of the configuration to influence the parsing decisions. We also provide a detailed analysis of how this representation should be built out of sub-representations of its core elements (words, trees and stack). Additionally, we investigate how different types of swap oracles influence the results. Our model is the first neural discontinuous constituency parser, and it outperforms all the previously published models on three out of four datasets while on the fourth it obtains second place by a tiny difference.- Anthology ID:
- D17-1174
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
- Month:
- September
- Year:
- 2017
- Address:
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- Editors:
- Martha Palmer, Rebecca Hwa, Sebastian Riedel
- Venue:
- EMNLP
- SIG:
- SIGDAT
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 1666–1676
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/D17-1174
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/D17-1174
- Cite (ACL):
- Miloš Stanojević and Raquel G. Alhama. 2017. Neural Discontinuous Constituency Parsing. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 1666–1676, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Neural Discontinuous Constituency Parsing (Stanojević & Alhama, EMNLP 2017)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-3/D17-1174.pdf