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    <abstract>Syntactic parsing plays a crucial role in improving the quality of natural language processing tasks. Although there have been several research projects on syntactic parsing in Vietnamese, the parsing quality has been far inferior than those reported in major languages, such as English and Chinese. In this work, we evaluated representative constituency parsing models on a Vietnamese Treebank to look for the most suitable parsing method for Vietnamese. We then combined the advantages of automatic and manual analysis to investigate errors produced by the experimented parsers and find the reasons for them. Our analysis focused on three possible sources of parsing errors, namely limited training data, part-of-speech (POS) tagging errors, and ambiguous constructions. As a result, we found that the last two sources, which frequently appear in Vietnamese text, significantly attributed to the poor performance of Vietnamese parsing.</abstract>
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T An Empirical Investigation of Error Types in Vietnamese Parsing
%A Nguyen, Quy
%A Miyao, Yusuke
%A Noji, Hiroshi
%A Nguyen, Nhung
%Y Bender, Emily M.
%Y Derczynski, Leon
%Y Isabelle, Pierre
%S Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
%D 2018
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
%F nguyen-etal-2018-empirical
%X Syntactic parsing plays a crucial role in improving the quality of natural language processing tasks. Although there have been several research projects on syntactic parsing in Vietnamese, the parsing quality has been far inferior than those reported in major languages, such as English and Chinese. In this work, we evaluated representative constituency parsing models on a Vietnamese Treebank to look for the most suitable parsing method for Vietnamese. We then combined the advantages of automatic and manual analysis to investigate errors produced by the experimented parsers and find the reasons for them. Our analysis focused on three possible sources of parsing errors, namely limited training data, part-of-speech (POS) tagging errors, and ambiguous constructions. As a result, we found that the last two sources, which frequently appear in Vietnamese text, significantly attributed to the poor performance of Vietnamese parsing.
%U https://aclanthology.org/C18-1260
%P 3075-3089

Markdown (Informal)

[An Empirical Investigation of Error Types in Vietnamese Parsing](https://aclanthology.org/C18-1260) (Nguyen et al., COLING 2018)

• An Empirical Investigation of Error Types in Vietnamese Parsing (Nguyen et al., COLING 2018)

ACL

• Quy Nguyen, Yusuke Miyao, Hiroshi Noji, and Nhung Nguyen. 2018. An Empirical Investigation of Error Types in Vietnamese Parsing. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 3075–3089, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.