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Title: A statistical model for grammar mapping.
Authors: BASIRAT, A.1,2 ali.basirat@lingfil.uu.se, FAILI, H.1,3 h.faili@ut.ac.ir, NIVRE, J.2 joakim.nivre@lingfil.uu.se
Source: Natural Language Engineering. Mar2016, Vol. 22 Issue 2, p215-255. 41p.
Subjects: Grammar checkers (Computer software), Statistical models, Grammatical categories, Language ability, Grammar handbooks
Abstract: The two main classes of grammars are (a) hand-crafted grammars, which are developed by language experts, and (b) data-driven grammars, which are extracted from annotated corpora. This paper introduces a statistical method for mapping the elementary structures of a data-driven grammar onto the elementary structures of a hand-crafted grammar in order to combine their advantages. The idea is employed in the context of Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammars (LTAG) and tested on two LTAGs of English: the hand-crafted LTAG developed in the XTAG project, and the data-driven LTAG, which is automatically extracted from the Penn Treebank and used by the MICA parser. We propose a statistical model for mapping any elementary tree sequence of the MICA grammar onto a proper elementary tree sequence of the XTAG grammar. The model has been tested on three subsets of the WSJ corpus that have average lengths of 10, 16, and 18 words, respectively. The experimental results show that full-parse trees with average F1-scores of 72.49, 64.80, and 62.30 points could be built from 94.97%, 96.01%, and 90.25% of the XTAG elementary tree sequences assigned to the subsets, respectively. Moreover, by reducing the amount of syntactic lexical ambiguity of sentences, the proposed model significantly improves the efficiency of parsing in the XTAG system. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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