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A Minimal Span-Based Neural Constituency Parser

arXiv 1705.03919 ↗First posted 10 May 2017cs.CLcited by 59

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In this work, we present a minimal neural model for constituency parsing based on independent scoring of labels and spans. We show that this model is not only compatible with classical dynamic programming techniques, but also admits a novel greedy top-down inference algorithm based on recursive partitioning of the input. We demonstrate empirically that both prediction schemes are competitive with recent work, and when combined with basic extensions to the scoring model are capable of achieving state-of-the-art single-model performance on the Penn Treebank (91.79 F1) and strong performance on the French Treebank (82.23 F1).

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  7. 2021Bottom-Up Constituency Parsing and Nested Named Entity Recognition with Pointer Networkscited by 21
  8. 2021RST Parsing from Scratchcited by 14
  9. 2022Nested Named Entity Recognition as Latent Lexicalized Constituency Parsingcited by 14
  10. 2021Headed-Span-Based Projective Dependency Parsingcited by 11
  11. 2021Semantic Parsing in Task-Oriented Dialog with Recursive Insertion-based Encodercited by 8
  12. 2021A Conditional Splitting Framework for Efficient Constituency Parsingcited by 7
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  2. 2023Contextual Distortion Reveals Constituency: Masked Language Models are Implicit Parserscited by 7
  3. 2021Improved Latent Tree Induction with Distant Supervision via Span Constraintscited by 6
  4. 2021Something Old, Something New: Grammar-based CCG Parsing with Transformer Modelscited by 6
  5. 2022Compositional Generalisation with Structured Reordering and Fertility Layerscited by 6
  6. 2021Reducing Discontinuous to Continuous Parsing with Pointer Network Reorderingcited by 5
  7. 2021Combining (second-order) graph-based and headed-span-based projective dependency parsingcited by 5
  8. 2021Learning Syntax from Naturally-Occurring Bracketingscited by 4
  9. 2021Investigating Non-local Features for Neural Constituency Parsingcited by 4
  10. 2021Discontinuous Grammar as a Foreign Languagecited by 4
  11. 2022A Character-level Span-based Model for Mandarin Prosodic Structure Predictioncited by 4
  12. 2023LLM-enhanced Self-training for Cross-domain Constituency Parsingcited by 4
  13. 2021Joint Chinese Word Segmentation and Part-of-speech Tagging via Two-stage Span Labelingcited by 3
  14. 2022A dynamic programming algorithm for span-based nested named-entity recognition in O(n^2)cited by 3
  15. 2023Approximating CKY with Transformerscited by 3
  16. 2021Head-driven Phrase Structure Parsing in O(n3) Time Complexitycited by 2
  17. 2021Span Labeling Approach for Vietnamese and Chinese Word Segmentationcited by 2
  18. 2021Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English: First Parsing Results and Analysiscited by 2
  19. 2022Lexicon-injected Semantic Parsing for Task-Oriented Dialogcited by 2
  20. 2023On graph-based reentrancy-free semantic parsingcited by 2
  21. 2023SynJax: Structured Probability Distributions for JAXcited by 2
  22. 2023Cross-Lingual Constituency Parsing for Middle High German: A Delexicalized Approachcited by 2
  23. 2024To be Continuous, or to be Discrete, Those are Bits of Questionscited by 2
  24. 2024An Attempt to Develop a Neural Parser based on Simplified Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar on Vietnamesecited by 2
  25. 2021In-Order Chart-Based Constituent Parsingcited by 1
  26. 2021GrammarTagger: A Multilingual, Minimally-Supervised Grammar Profiler for Language Educationcited by 1
  27. 2021Neural Sequence Segmentation as Determining the Leftmost Segmentscited by 1
  28. 2021Neural Combinatory Constituency Parsingcited by 1
  29. 2021Searching for More Efficient Dynamic Programscited by 1
  30. 2022Fast Rule-Based Decoding: Revisiting Syntactic Rules in Neural Constituency Parsingcited by 1
  31. 2023Geo-Encoder: A Chunk-Argument Bi-Encoder Framework for Chinese Geographic Re-Rankingcited by 1
  32. 2024Structured Tree Alignment for Evaluation of (Speech) Constituency Parsingcited by 1
  33. 2024Improving Unsupervised Constituency Parsing via Maximizing Semantic Informationcited by 1
  34. 2021Augmenting Part-of-speech Tagging with Syntactic Information for Vietnamese and Chinesecited by 0
  35. 2021Prosodic segmentation for parsing spoken dialoguecited by 0
  36. 2022Unsupervised and Few-shot Parsing from Pretrained Language Modelscited by 0
  37. 2022Shift-Reduce Task-Oriented Semantic Parsing with Stack-Transformerscited by 0
  38. 2022Order-sensitive Neural Constituency Parsingcited by 0

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