End-to-End Graph-Based TAG Parsing with Neural Networks

Jungo Kasai, Robert Frank, Pauli Xu, William Merrill, Owen Rambow


Abstract
We present a graph-based Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) parser that uses BiLSTMs, highway connections, and character-level CNNs. Our best end-to-end parser, which jointly performs supertagging, POS tagging, and parsing, outperforms the previously reported best results by more than 2.2 LAS and UAS points. The graph-based parsing architecture allows for global inference and rich feature representations for TAG parsing, alleviating the fundamental trade-off between transition-based and graph-based parsing systems. We also demonstrate that the proposed parser achieves state-of-the-art performance in the downstream tasks of Parsing Evaluation using Textual Entailments (PETE) and Unbounded Dependency Recovery. This provides further support for the claim that TAG is a viable formalism for problems that require rich structural analysis of sentences.
Anthology ID:
N18-1107
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers)
Month:
June
Year:
2018
Address:
New Orleans, Louisiana
Editors:
Marilyn Walker, Heng Ji, Amanda Stent
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NAACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
1181–1194
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/N18-1107
DOI:
10.18653/v1/N18-1107
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Cite (ACL):
Jungo Kasai, Robert Frank, Pauli Xu, William Merrill, and Owen Rambow. 2018. End-to-End Graph-Based TAG Parsing with Neural Networks. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers), pages 1181–1194, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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End-to-End Graph-Based TAG Parsing with Neural Networks (Kasai et al., NAACL 2018)
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Code
 jungokasai/graph_parser
Data
Penn Treebank