Mind the Gap: Data Enrichment in Dependency Parsing of Elliptical Constructions

Kira Droganova, Filip Ginter, Jenna Kanerva, Daniel Zeman


Abstract
In this paper, we focus on parsing rare and non-trivial constructions, in particular ellipsis. We report on several experiments in enrichment of training data for this specific construction, evaluated on five languages: Czech, English, Finnish, Russian and Slovak. These data enrichment methods draw upon self-training and tri-training, combined with a stratified sampling method mimicking the structural complexity of the original treebank. In addition, using these same methods, we also demonstrate small improvements over the CoNLL-17 parsing shared task winning system for four of the five languages, not only restricted to the elliptical constructions.
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W18-6006
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Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2018)
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November
Year:
2018
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Brussels, Belgium
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Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Teresa Lynn, Sebastian Schuster
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UDW
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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47–54
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https://aclanthology.org/W18-6006
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W18-6006
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Kira Droganova, Filip Ginter, Jenna Kanerva, and Daniel Zeman. 2018. Mind the Gap: Data Enrichment in Dependency Parsing of Elliptical Constructions. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2018), pages 47–54, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Mind the Gap: Data Enrichment in Dependency Parsing of Elliptical Constructions (Droganova et al., UDW 2018)
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