Statistical Parsing of Tree Wrapping Grammars

Tatiana Bladier, Jakub Waszczuk, Laura Kallmeyer


Abstract
We describe an approach to statistical parsing with Tree-Wrapping Grammars (TWG). TWG is a tree-rewriting formalism which includes the tree-combination operations of substitution, sister-adjunction and tree-wrapping substitution. TWGs can be extracted from constituency treebanks and aim at representing long distance dependencies (LDDs) in a linguistically adequate way. We present a parsing algorithm for TWGs based on neural supertagging and A* parsing. We extract a TWG for English from the treebanks for Role and Reference Grammar and discuss first parsing results with this grammar.
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2020.coling-main.595
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Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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December
Year:
2020
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Barcelona, Spain (Online)
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Donia Scott, Nuria Bel, Chengqing Zong
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COLING
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International Committee on Computational Linguistics
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6759–6766
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.595
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.595
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Tatiana Bladier, Jakub Waszczuk, and Laura Kallmeyer. 2020. Statistical Parsing of Tree Wrapping Grammars. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 6759–6766, Barcelona, Spain (Online). International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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Statistical Parsing of Tree Wrapping Grammars (Bladier et al., COLING 2020)
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 taniabladier/statistical_twg_parsing