Using hyperlinks to improve multilingual partial parsers

TY - GEN

T1 - Using hyperlinks to improve multilingual partial parsers

AU - Søgaard, Anders

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

N2 - Syntactic annotation is costly and not available for the vast majority of the world's languages. We show that sometimes we can do away with less labeled data by exploiting more readily available forms of mark-up. Specifically, we revisit an idea from Valentin Spitkovsky's work (2010), namely that hyperlinks typically bracket syntactic constituents or chunks. We strengthen his results by showing that not only can hyperlinks help in low resource scenarios, exemplified here by Quechua, but learning from hyperlinks can also improve state-of-the-art NLP models for English newswire. We also present out-of-domain evaluation on English Ontonotes 4.0.

AB - Syntactic annotation is costly and not available for the vast majority of the world's languages. We show that sometimes we can do away with less labeled data by exploiting more readily available forms of mark-up. Specifically, we revisit an idea from Valentin Spitkovsky's work (2010), namely that hyperlinks typically bracket syntactic constituents or chunks. We strengthen his results by showing that not only can hyperlinks help in low resource scenarios, exemplified here by Quechua, but learning from hyperlinks can also improve state-of-the-art NLP models for English newswire. We also present out-of-domain evaluation on English Ontonotes 4.0.

M3 - Article in proceedings

SP - 67

EP - 71

BT - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Parsing Technologies

PB - Association for Computational Linguistics

T2 - 15th International Conference on Parsing Technologies

Y2 - 20 September 2017 through 22 September 2017

ER -