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Layer-Based Dependency Parsing
PACLIC 23 / City University of Hong Kong / 3-5 December 200
Structured Training for Neural Network Transition-Based Parsing
We present structured perceptron training for neural network transition-based
dependency parsing. We learn the neural network representation using a gold
corpus augmented by a large number of automatically parsed sentences. Given
this fixed network representation, we learn a final layer using the structured
perceptron with beam-search decoding. On the Penn Treebank, our parser reaches
94.26% unlabeled and 92.41% labeled attachment accuracy, which to our knowledge
is the best accuracy on Stanford Dependencies to date. We also provide in-depth
ablative analysis to determine which aspects of our model provide the largest
gains in accuracy
An attentive neural architecture for joint segmentation and parsing and its application to real estate ads
In processing human produced text using natural language processing (NLP)
techniques, two fundamental subtasks that arise are (i) segmentation of the
plain text into meaningful subunits (e.g., entities), and (ii) dependency
parsing, to establish relations between subunits. In this paper, we develop a
relatively simple and effective neural joint model that performs both
segmentation and dependency parsing together, instead of one after the other as
in most state-of-the-art works. We will focus in particular on the real estate
ad setting, aiming to convert an ad to a structured description, which we name
property tree, comprising the tasks of (1) identifying important entities of a
property (e.g., rooms) from classifieds and (2) structuring them into a tree
format. In this work, we propose a new joint model that is able to tackle the
two tasks simultaneously and construct the property tree by (i) avoiding the
error propagation that would arise from the subtasks one after the other in a
pipelined fashion, and (ii) exploiting the interactions between the subtasks.
For this purpose, we perform an extensive comparative study of the pipeline
methods and the new proposed joint model, reporting an improvement of over
three percentage points in the overall edge F1 score of the property tree.
Also, we propose attention methods, to encourage our model to focus on salient
tokens during the construction of the property tree. Thus we experimentally
demonstrate the usefulness of attentive neural architectures for the proposed
joint model, showcasing a further improvement of two percentage points in edge
F1 score for our application.Comment: Preprint - Accepted for publication in Expert Systems with
Application
Universal Dependencies Parsing for Colloquial Singaporean English
Singlish can be interesting to the ACL community both linguistically as a
major creole based on English, and computationally for information extraction
and sentiment analysis of regional social media. We investigate dependency
parsing of Singlish by constructing a dependency treebank under the Universal
Dependencies scheme, and then training a neural network model by integrating
English syntactic knowledge into a state-of-the-art parser trained on the
Singlish treebank. Results show that English knowledge can lead to 25% relative
error reduction, resulting in a parser of 84.47% accuracies. To the best of our
knowledge, we are the first to use neural stacking to improve cross-lingual
dependency parsing on low-resource languages. We make both our annotation and
parser available for further research.Comment: Accepted by ACL 201
A Re-ranking Model for Dependency Parser with Recursive Convolutional Neural Network
In this work, we address the problem to model all the nodes (words or
phrases) in a dependency tree with the dense representations. We propose a
recursive convolutional neural network (RCNN) architecture to capture syntactic
and compositional-semantic representations of phrases and words in a dependency
tree. Different with the original recursive neural network, we introduce the
convolution and pooling layers, which can model a variety of compositions by
the feature maps and choose the most informative compositions by the pooling
layers. Based on RCNN, we use a discriminative model to re-rank a -best list
of candidate dependency parsing trees. The experiments show that RCNN is very
effective to improve the state-of-the-art dependency parsing on both English
and Chinese datasets
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