Seeker, Wolfgang, Rehbein, Ines, Kuhn, Jonas and van Genabith, Josef ORCID: 0000-0003-1322-7944 (2010) Hard constraints for grammatical function labelling. In: ACL 2010 - 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 11-16 July 2010, Uppsala, Sweden.
Abstract
For languages with (semi-) free word order (such as German), labelling grammatical functions on top of phrase-structural constituent analyses is crucial for making them interpretable. Unfortunately, most statistical classifiers consider only local information for function labelling and fail to capture important restrictions on the distribution of core argument functions such as subject, object etc., namely that there is at most one subject (etc.) per
clause. We augment a statistical classifier with an integer linear program imposing hard linguistic constraints on the solution space output by the classifier, capturing
global distributional restrictions. We show that this improves labelling quality, in particular for argument grammatical functions, in an intrinsic evaluation, and, importantly, grammar coverage for treebankbased
(Lexical-Functional) grammar acquisition and parsing, in an extrinsic evaluation.
Metadata
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Event Type: | Conference |
Refereed: | Yes |
Subjects: | Computer Science > Computational linguistics |
DCU Faculties and Centres: | Research Initiatives and Centres > Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing |
Published in: | Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. . Association for Computational Linguistics. |
Publisher: | Association for Computational Linguistics |
Official URL: | http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P/P10/ |
Copyright Information: | © 2010 Association for Computational Linguistics |
Use License: | This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License |
Funders: | Science Foundation Ireland |
ID Code: | 15988 |
Deposited On: | 08 Dec 2010 13:47 by Shane Harper . Last Modified 21 Jan 2022 16:27 |
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