The ADAPT Enhanced Dependency Parser at the IWPT 2020 Shared Task

James Barry, Joachim Wagner, Jennifer Foster


Abstract
We describe the ADAPT system for the 2020 IWPT Shared Task on parsing enhanced Universal Dependencies in 17 languages. We implement a pipeline approach using UDPipe and UDPipe-future to provide initial levels of annotation. The enhanced dependency graph is either produced by a graph-based semantic dependency parser or is built from the basic tree using a small set of heuristics. Our results show that, for the majority of languages, a semantic dependency parser can be successfully applied to the task of parsing enhanced dependencies. Unfortunately, we did not ensure a connected graph as part of our pipeline approach and our competition submission relied on a last-minute fix to pass the validation script which harmed our official evaluation scores significantly. Our submission ranked eighth in the official evaluation with a macro-averaged coarse ELAS F1 of 67.23 and a treebank average of 67.49. We later implemented our own graph-connecting fix which resulted in a score of 79.53 (language average) or 79.76 (treebank average), which would have placed fourth in the competition evaluation.
Anthology ID:
2020.iwpt-1.24
Volume:
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Parsing Technologies and the IWPT 2020 Shared Task on Parsing into Enhanced Universal Dependencies
Month:
July
Year:
2020
Address:
Online
Editors:
Gosse Bouma, Yuji Matsumoto, Stephan Oepen, Kenji Sagae, Djamé Seddah, Weiwei Sun, Anders Søgaard, Reut Tsarfaty, Dan Zeman
Venue:
IWPT
SIG:
SIGPARSE
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
Note:
Pages:
227–235
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.iwpt-1.24
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.iwpt-1.24
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Cite (ACL):
James Barry, Joachim Wagner, and Jennifer Foster. 2020. The ADAPT Enhanced Dependency Parser at the IWPT 2020 Shared Task. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Parsing Technologies and the IWPT 2020 Shared Task on Parsing into Enhanced Universal Dependencies, pages 227–235, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
The ADAPT Enhanced Dependency Parser at the IWPT 2020 Shared Task (Barry et al., IWPT 2020)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.iwpt-1.24.pdf
Video:
 http://slideslive.com/38929691
Code
 jowagner/ud-combination +  additional community code