Sluice resolution without hand-crafted features over brittle syntax trees

Ola Rønning; Daniel Hardt; Anders Søgaard

Sluice resolution without hand-crafted features over brittle syntax trees

Ola Rønning, Daniel Hardt, Anders Søgaard

Department of Computer Science

Abstract

Sluice resolution in English is the problemof finding antecedents of wh-fronted ellipses.Previous work has relied on handcraftedfeatures over syntax trees that scalepoorly to other languages and domains;in particular, to dialogue, which is one ofthe most interesting applications of sluiceresolution. Syntactic information is arguablyimportant for sluice resolution, butwe show that multi-task learning with partialparsing as auxiliary tasks effectivelycloses the gap and buys us an additional9% error reduction over previous work.Since we are not directly relying on featuresfrom partial parsers, our system ismore robust to domain shifts, giving a26% error reduction on embedded sluicesin dialogue.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings, 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies : (Long Papers)
Volume	1
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics
Publication date	2018
Pages	236–241
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - New Orleans, United States Duration: 1 Jun 2018 → 6 Jun 2018

Conference

Conference	16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
Country/Territory	United States
City	New Orleans
Period	01/06/2018 → 06/06/2018

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Sluice resolution without hand-crafted features over brittle syntax trees. / Rønning, Ola; Hardt, Daniel; Søgaard, Anders.

Proceedings, 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies : (Long Papers). Vol. 1 Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018. p. 236–241.

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Rønning, O, Hardt, D & Søgaard, A 2018, Sluice resolution without hand-crafted features over brittle syntax trees. in Proceedings, 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies : (Long Papers). vol. 1, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 236–241, 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, New Orleans, United States, 01/06/2018.

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