A Unifying Theory of Transition-based and Sequence Labeling Parsing

Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, Michalina Strzyz, David Vilares


Abstract
We define a mapping from transition-based parsing algorithms that read sentences from left to right to sequence labeling encodings of syntactic trees. This not only establishes a theoretical relation between transition-based parsing and sequence-labeling parsing, but also provides a method to obtain new encodings for fast and simple sequence labeling parsing from the many existing transition-based parsers for different formalisms. Applying it to dependency parsing, we implement sequence labeling versions of four algorithms, showing that they are learnable and obtain comparable performance to existing encodings.
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2020.coling-main.336
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Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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December
Year:
2020
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Barcelona, Spain (Online)
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Donia Scott, Nuria Bel, Chengqing Zong
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COLING
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International Committee on Computational Linguistics
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3776–3793
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.336
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.336
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Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, Michalina Strzyz, and David Vilares. 2020. A Unifying Theory of Transition-based and Sequence Labeling Parsing. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 3776–3793, Barcelona, Spain (Online). International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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A Unifying Theory of Transition-based and Sequence Labeling Parsing (Gómez-Rodríguez et al., COLING 2020)
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 mstrise/dep2label