A non-projective greedy dependency parser with bidirectional LSTMs

David Vilares, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez


Abstract
The LyS-FASTPARSE team present BIST-COVINGTON, a neural implementation of the Covington (2001) algorithm for non-projective dependency parsing. The bidirectional LSTM approach by Kiperwasser and Goldberg (2016) is used to train a greedy parser with a dynamic oracle to mitigate error propagation. The model participated in the CoNLL 2017 UD Shared Task. In spite of not using any ensemble methods and using the baseline segmentation and PoS tagging, the parser obtained good results on both macro-average LAS and UAS in the big treebanks category (55 languages), ranking 7th out of 33 teams. In the all treebanks category (LAS and UAS) we ranked 16th and 12th. The gap between the all and big categories is mainly due to the poor performance on four parallel PUD treebanks, suggesting that some ‘suffixed’ treebanks (e.g. Spanish-AnCora) perform poorly on cross-treebank settings, which does not occur with the corresponding ‘unsuffixed’ treebank (e.g. Spanish). By changing that, we obtain the 11th best LAS among all runs (official and unofficial). The code is made available at https://github.com/CoNLL-UD-2017/LyS-FASTPARSE
Anthology ID:
K17-3016
Volume:
Proceedings of the CoNLL 2017 Shared Task: Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies
Month:
August
Year:
2017
Address:
Vancouver, Canada
Editors:
Jan Hajič, Dan Zeman
Venue:
CoNLL
SIG:
SIGNLL
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
152–162
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/K17-3016
DOI:
10.18653/v1/K17-3016
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Cite (ACL):
David Vilares and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez. 2017. A non-projective greedy dependency parser with bidirectional LSTMs. In Proceedings of the CoNLL 2017 Shared Task: Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies, pages 152–162, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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A non-projective greedy dependency parser with bidirectional LSTMs (Vilares & Gómez-Rodríguez, CoNLL 2017)
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https://aclanthology.org/K17-3016.pdf
Code
 CoNLL-UD-2017/LyS-FASTPARSE
Data
SSTUniversal Dependencies