A syntactic component for Vietnamese language processing

This paper presents the development of a grammar and a syntactic parser for the Vietnamese language. We first discuss the construction of a lexicalized tree-adjoining grammar using an automatic extraction approach. We then present the construction and evaluation of a deep syntactic parser based on the extracted grammar. This is a complete system that produces syntactic structures for Vietnamese sentences. A dependency annotation scheme for Vietnamese and an algorithm for extracting dependency structures from derivation trees are also proposed. This is the first Vietnamese parsing system capable of producing both constituency and dependency analyses. It offers encouraging performance: accuracy of 69.33% and 73.21% for constituency and dependency analysis, respectively