A Span-based Linearization for Constituent Trees
Yang Wei, Yuanbin Wu, Man Lan
Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing Long Paper
Session 6A: Jul 7
(05:00-06:00 GMT)
Session 8A: Jul 7
(12:00-13:00 GMT)
Abstract:
We propose a novel linearization of a constituent tree, together with a new locally normalized model. For each split point in a sentence, our model computes the normalizer on all spans ending with that split point, and then predicts a tree span from them. Compared with global models, our model is fast and parallelizable. Different from previous local models, our linearization method is tied on the spans directly and considers more local features when performing span prediction, which is more interpretable and effective. Experiments on PTB (95.8 F1) and CTB (92.4 F1) show that our model significantly outperforms existing local models and efficiently achieves competitive results with global models.
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