Evaluating Parsing Strategies Using Standardized Parse Files (1992)
| Venue: | In Proceedings of the 3rd ACL Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing |
| Citations: | 20 - 1 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Grishman92evaluatingparsing,
author = {Ralph Grishman and Catherine Macleod and John Sterling},
title = {Evaluating Parsing Strategies Using Standardized Parse Files},
booktitle = {In Proceedings of the 3rd ACL Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing},
year = {1992},
pages = {156--161}
}
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Abstract
The availability of large files of manuallyreviewed parse trees from the University of Pennsylvania "tree bank", along with a program for comparing system-generated parses against these "standard" parses, provides a new opportunity for evaluating different pars- ing strategies. We discuss some of the restructuring required to the output of our parser so that it could be meaningfully compared with these standard parses. We then describe several heuristics for improving parsing accuracy and coverage, such as closest attachment of modifiers, statistical grammars, and fitted parses, and present a quantitative evaluation of the improvements obtained with each strategy.
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