Efficient Discontinuous Phrase-Structure Parsing via the Generalized Maximum Spanning Arborescence

Caio Corro, Joseph Le Roux, Mathieu Lacroix


Abstract
We present a new method for the joint task of tagging and non-projective dependency parsing. We demonstrate its usefulness with an application to discontinuous phrase-structure parsing where decoding lexicalized spines and syntactic derivations is performed jointly. The main contributions of this paper are (1) a reduction from joint tagging and non-projective dependency parsing to the Generalized Maximum Spanning Arborescence problem, and (2) a novel decoding algorithm for this problem through Lagrangian relaxation. We evaluate this model and obtain state-of-the-art results despite strong independence assumptions.
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D17-1172
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Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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September
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2017
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Copenhagen, Denmark
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1644–1654
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10.18653/v1/D17-1172
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Caio Corro, Joseph Le Roux, and Mathieu Lacroix. 2017. Efficient Discontinuous Phrase-Structure Parsing via the Generalized Maximum Spanning Arborescence. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 1644–1654, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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