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Favor Short Dependencies: Parsing with Soft and Hard Constraints on Dependency Length
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2010
Text, Speech and Language Technology
In lexicalized phrase-structure or dependency parses, a word's modifiers tend to fall near it in the string. This fact can be exploited by parsers. We first show that a crude way to use dependency length as a parsing feature can substantially improve parsing speed and accuracy in English and Chinese, with more mixed results on German. We then show similar improvements by imposing hard bounds on dependency length and (additionally) modeling the resulting sequence of parse fragments. The approach
doi:10.1007/978-90-481-9352-3_8
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