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High precision extraction of grammatical relations

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posted on 2023-06-08, 07:44 authored by John Carroll, Ted Briscoe
A parsing system returning analyses in the form of sets of grammatical relations can obtain high precision if it hypothesises a particular relation only when it is certain that the relation is correct. We operationalise this technique---in a statistical parser using a manually-developed wide-coverage grammar of English---by only returning relations that form part of all analyses licensed by the grammar. We observe an increase in precision from 75% to over 90% (at the cost of a reduction in recall) on a test corpus of naturally-occurring text.

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Publication status

  • Published

Publisher

Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc

Pages

7.0

Presentation Type

  • paper

Event name

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'02)

Event location

Taipei, Taiwan

Event type

conference

ISBN

1-55860-899-0

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  • Informatics Publications

Notes

Originality: Presents a generally-applicable technique for increasing the precision of the analyses returned by natural language parsers by considering the relative weighting assigned by the parser to all possible sub-analyses. Rigour: Technique tested on a publicly-available domain-independent gold standard test set. Significance: Results show up to a 15 percentage point increase in precision (at a cost in recall). Impact: Google Scholar 33 citations. Outlet: Presented at a long-established, top-tier international conference on natural language processing.

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2012-02-06

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