Skeletons in the Parser: Using a Shallow Parser to Improve Deep Parsing

Abstract

We describe a simple approach for integrating shallow and deep parsing. We use phrase structure bracketing obtained from the Collins parser as filters to guide deep parsing. Our experiments demonstrate that our technique yields substantial gains in speed along with modest improvements in accuracy.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA454820

Entities

People

  • Daniel Gildea
  • James F. Allen
  • Mary Swift

Organizations

  • University of Rochester

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Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Context Free Grammars
  • Dialogue Systems
  • Grammars
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Lisp Programming Language
  • Models
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Natural Languages
  • Ontologies
  • Skeleton
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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  • Computational Linguistics