Bernd Bohnet


2023

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A Comprehensive Evaluation of Tool-Assisted Generation Strategies
Alon Jacovi | Avi Caciularu | Jonathan Herzig | Roee Aharoni | Bernd Bohnet | Mor Geva
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023

A growing area of research investigates augmenting language models with tools (e.g., search engines, calculators) to overcome their shortcomings (e.g., missing or incorrect knowledge, incorrect logical inferences). Various few-shot tool-usage strategies have been proposed. However, there is no systematic and fair comparison across different strategies, or between these strategies and strong baselines that do not leverage tools. We conduct an extensive empirical analysis, finding that (1) across various datasets, example difficulty levels, and models, strong no-tool baselines are competitive to tool-assisted strategies, implying that effectively using tools with in-context demonstrations is a difficult unsolved problem; (2) for knowledge-retrieval tasks, strategies that *refine* incorrect outputs with tools outperform strategies that retrieve relevant information *ahead of* or *during generation*; (3) tool-assisted strategies are expensive in the number of tokens they require to work—incurring additional costs by orders of magnitude—which does not translate into significant improvement in performance. Overall, our findings suggest that few-shot tool integration is still an open challenge, emphasizing the need for comprehensive evaluations of future strategies to accurately assess their *benefits* and *costs*.

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Coreference Resolution through a seq2seq Transition-Based System
Bernd Bohnet | Chris Alberti | Michael Collins
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Volume 11

Most recent coreference resolution systems use search algorithms over possible spans to identify mentions and resolve coreference. We instead present a coreference resolution system that uses a text-to-text (seq2seq) paradigm to predict mentions and links jointly. We implement the coreference system as a transition system and use multilingual T5 as an underlying language model. We obtain state-of-the-art accuracy on the CoNLL-2012 datasets with 83.3 F1-score for English (a 2.3 higher F1-score than previous work [Dobrovolskii, 2021]) using only CoNLL data for training, 68.5 F1-score for Arabic (+4.1 higher than previous work), and 74.3 F1-score for Chinese (+5.3). In addition we use the SemEval-2010 data sets for experiments in the zero-shot setting, a few-shot setting, and supervised setting using all available training data. We obtain substantially higher zero-shot F1-scores for 3 out of 4 languages than previous approaches and significantly exceed previous supervised state-of-the-art results for all five tested languages. We provide the code and models as open source.1

2022

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Decoding Part-of-Speech from Human EEG Signals
Alex Murphy | Bernd Bohnet | Ryan McDonald | Uta Noppeney
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

This work explores techniques to predict Part-of-Speech (PoS) tags from neural signals measured at millisecond resolution with electroencephalography (EEG) during text reading. We first show that information about word length, frequency and word class is encoded by the brain at different post-stimulus latencies. We then demonstrate that pre-training on averaged EEG data and data augmentation techniques boost PoS decoding accuracy for single EEG trials. Finally, applying optimised temporally-resolved decoding techniques we show that Transformers substantially outperform linear-SVMs on PoS tagging of unigram and bigram data.

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GEMv2: Multilingual NLG Benchmarking in a Single Line of Code
Sebastian Gehrmann | Abhik Bhattacharjee | Abinaya Mahendiran | Alex Wang | Alexandros Papangelis | Aman Madaan | Angelina Mcmillan-major | Anna Shvets | Ashish Upadhyay | Bernd Bohnet | Bingsheng Yao | Bryan Wilie | Chandra Bhagavatula | Chaobin You | Craig Thomson | Cristina Garbacea | Dakuo Wang | Daniel Deutsch | Deyi Xiong | Di Jin | Dimitra Gkatzia | Dragomir Radev | Elizabeth Clark | Esin Durmus | Faisal Ladhak | Filip Ginter | Genta Indra Winata | Hendrik Strobelt | Hiroaki Hayashi | Jekaterina Novikova | Jenna Kanerva | Jenny Chim | Jiawei Zhou | Jordan Clive | Joshua Maynez | João Sedoc | Juraj Juraska | Kaustubh Dhole | Khyathi Raghavi Chandu | Laura Perez Beltrachini | Leonardo F . R. Ribeiro | Lewis Tunstall | Li Zhang | Mahim Pushkarna | Mathias Creutz | Michael White | Mihir Sanjay Kale | Moussa Kamal Eddine | Nico Daheim | Nishant Subramani | Ondrej Dusek | Paul Pu Liang | Pawan Sasanka Ammanamanchi | Qi Zhu | Ratish Puduppully | Reno Kriz | Rifat Shahriyar | Ronald Cardenas | Saad Mahamood | Salomey Osei | Samuel Cahyawijaya | Sanja Štajner | Sebastien Montella | Shailza Jolly | Simon Mille | Tahmid Hasan | Tianhao Shen | Tosin Adewumi | Vikas Raunak | Vipul Raheja | Vitaly Nikolaev | Vivian Tsai | Yacine Jernite | Ying Xu | Yisi Sang | Yixin Liu | Yufang Hou
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations

Evaluations in machine learning rarely use the latest metrics, datasets, or human evaluation in favor of remaining compatible with prior work. The compatibility, often facilitated through leaderboards, thus leads to outdated but standardized evaluation practices. We pose that the standardization is taking place in the wrong spot. Evaluation infrastructure should enable researchers to use the latest methods and what should be standardized instead is how to incorporate these new evaluation advances. We introduce GEMv2, the new version of the Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics Benchmark which uses a modular infrastructure for dataset, model, and metric developers to benefit from each other’s work. GEMv2 supports 40 documented datasets in 51 languages, ongoing online evaluation for all datasets, and our interactive tools make it easier to add new datasets to the living benchmark.

2020

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Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Multilingual Surface Realisation
Anya Belz | Bernd Bohnet | Thiago Castro Ferreira | Yvette Graham | Simon Mille | Leo Wanner
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Multilingual Surface Realisation

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The Third Multilingual Surface Realisation Shared Task (SR’20): Overview and Evaluation Results
Simon Mille | Anya Belz | Bernd Bohnet | Thiago Castro Ferreira | Yvette Graham | Leo Wanner
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Multilingual Surface Realisation

This paper presents results from the Third Shared Task on Multilingual Surface Realisation (SR’20) which was organised as part of the COLING’20 Workshop on Multilingual Surface Realisation. As in SR’18 and SR’19, the shared task comprised two tracks: (1) a Shallow Track where the inputs were full UD structures with word order information removed and tokens lemmatised; and (2) a Deep Track where additionally, functional words and morphological information were removed. Moreover, each track had two subtracks: (a) restricted-resource, where only the data provided or approved as part of a track could be used for training models, and (b) open-resource, where any data could be used. The Shallow Track was offered in 11 languages, whereas the Deep Track in 3 ones. Systems were evaluated using both automatic metrics and direct assessment by human evaluators in terms of Readability and Meaning Similarity to reference outputs. We present the evaluation results, along with descriptions of the SR’19 tracks, data and evaluation methods, as well as brief summaries of the participating systems. For full descriptions of the participating systems, please see the separate system reports elsewhere in this volume.

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Neural Mention Detection
Juntao Yu | Bernd Bohnet | Massimo Poesio
Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

Mention detection is an important preprocessing step for annotation and interpretation in applications such as NER and coreference resolution, but few stand-alone neural models have been proposed able to handle the full range of mentions. In this work, we propose and compare three neural network-based approaches to mention detection. The first approach is based on the mention detection part of a state of the art coreference resolution system; the second uses ELMO embeddings together with a bidirectional LSTM and a biaffine classifier; the third approach uses the recently introduced BERT model. Our best model (using a biaffine classifier) achieves gains of up to 1.8 percentage points on mention recall when compared with a strong baseline in a HIGH RECALL coreference annotation setting. The same model achieves improvements of up to 5.3 and 6.2 p.p. when compared with the best-reported mention detection F1 on the CONLL and CRAC coreference data sets respectively in a HIGH F1 annotation setting. We then evaluate our models for coreference resolution by using mentions predicted by our best model in start-of-the-art coreference systems. The enhanced model achieved absolute improvements of up to 1.7 and 0.7 p.p. when compared with our strong baseline systems (pipeline system and end-to-end system) respectively. For nested NER, the evaluation of our model on the GENIA corpora shows that our model matches or outperforms state-of-the-art models despite not being specifically designed for this task.

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A Gold Standard Dependency Treebank for Turkish
Tolga Kayadelen | Adnan Ozturel | Bernd Bohnet
Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

We introduce TWT; a new treebank for Turkish which consists of web and Wikipedia sentences that are annotated for segmentation, morphology, part-of-speech and dependency relations. To date, it is the largest publicly available human-annotated morpho-syntactic Turkish treebank in terms of the annotated word count. It is also the first large Turkish dependency treebank that has a dedicated Wikipedia section. We present the tagsets and the methodology that are used in annotating the treebank and also the results of the baseline experiments on Turkish dependency parsing with this treebank.

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On Faithfulness and Factuality in Abstractive Summarization
Joshua Maynez | Shashi Narayan | Bernd Bohnet | Ryan McDonald
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

It is well known that the standard likelihood training and approximate decoding objectives in neural text generation models lead to less human-like responses for open-ended tasks such as language modeling and story generation. In this paper we have analyzed limitations of these models for abstractive document summarization and found that these models are highly prone to hallucinate content that is unfaithful to the input document. We conducted a large scale human evaluation of several neural abstractive summarization systems to better understand the types of hallucinations they produce. Our human annotators found substantial amounts of hallucinated content in all model generated summaries. However, our analysis does show that pretrained models are better summarizers not only in terms of raw metrics, i.e., ROUGE, but also in generating faithful and factual summaries as evaluated by humans. Furthermore, we show that textual entailment measures better correlate with faithfulness than standard metrics, potentially leading the way to automatic evaluation metrics as well as training and decoding criteria.

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Named Entity Recognition as Dependency Parsing
Juntao Yu | Bernd Bohnet | Massimo Poesio
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in Natural Language Processing, concerned with identifying spans of text expressing references to entities. NER research is often focused on flat entities only (flat NER), ignoring the fact that entity references can be nested, as in [Bank of [China]] (Finkel and Manning, 2009). In this paper, we use ideas from graph-based dependency parsing to provide our model a global view on the input via a biaffine model (Dozat and Manning, 2017). The biaffine model scores pairs of start and end tokens in a sentence which we use to explore all spans, so that the model is able to predict named entities accurately. We show that the model works well for both nested and flat NER through evaluation on 8 corpora and achieving SoTA performance on all of them, with accuracy gains of up to 2.2 percentage points.

2019

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Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Multilingual Surface Realisation (MSR 2019)
Simon Mille | Anja Belz | Bernd Bohnet | Yvette Graham | Leo Wanner
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Multilingual Surface Realisation (MSR 2019)

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The Second Multilingual Surface Realisation Shared Task (SR’19): Overview and Evaluation Results
Simon Mille | Anja Belz | Bernd Bohnet | Yvette Graham | Leo Wanner
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Multilingual Surface Realisation (MSR 2019)

We report results from the SR’19 Shared Task, the second edition of a multilingual surface realisation task organised as part of the EMNLP’19 Workshop on Multilingual Surface Realisation. As in SR’18, the shared task comprised two tracks with different levels of complexity: (a) a shallow track where the inputs were full UD structures with word order information removed and tokens lemmatised; and (b) a deep track where additionally, functional words and morphological information were removed. The shallow track was offered in eleven, and the deep track in three languages. Systems were evaluated (a) automatically, using a range of intrinsic metrics, and (b) by human judges in terms of readability and meaning similarity. This report presents the evaluation results, along with descriptions of the SR’19 tracks, data and evaluation methods. For full descriptions of the participating systems, please see the separate system reports elsewhere in this volume.

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Recursive LSTM Tree Representation for Arc-Standard Transition-Based Dependency Parsing
Mohab Elkaref | Bernd Bohnet
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW, SyntaxFest 2019)

2018

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82 Treebanks, 34 Models: Universal Dependency Parsing with Multi-Treebank Models
Aaron Smith | Bernd Bohnet | Miryam de Lhoneux | Joakim Nivre | Yan Shao | Sara Stymne
Proceedings of the CoNLL 2018 Shared Task: Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies

We present the Uppsala system for the CoNLL 2018 Shared Task on universal dependency parsing. Our system is a pipeline consisting of three components: the first performs joint word and sentence segmentation; the second predicts part-of-speech tags and morphological features; the third predicts dependency trees from words and tags. Instead of training a single parsing model for each treebank, we trained models with multiple treebanks for one language or closely related languages, greatly reducing the number of models. On the official test run, we ranked 7th of 27 teams for the LAS and MLAS metrics. Our system obtained the best scores overall for word segmentation, universal POS tagging, and morphological features.

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Proceedings of the First Workshop on Multilingual Surface Realisation
Simon Mille | Anja Belz | Bernd Bohnet | Emily Pitler | Leo Wanner
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Multilingual Surface Realisation

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The First Multilingual Surface Realisation Shared Task (SR’18): Overview and Evaluation Results
Simon Mille | Anja Belz | Bernd Bohnet | Yvette Graham | Emily Pitler | Leo Wanner
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Multilingual Surface Realisation

We report results from the SR’18 Shared Task, a new multilingual surface realisation task organised as part of the ACL’18 Workshop on Multilingual Surface Realisation. As in its English-only predecessor task SR’11, the shared task comprised two tracks with different levels of complexity: (a) a shallow track where the inputs were full UD structures with word order information removed and tokens lemmatised; and (b) a deep track where additionally, functional words and morphological information were removed. The shallow track was offered in ten, and the deep track in three languages. Systems were evaluated (a) automatically, using a range of intrinsic metrics, and (b) by human judges in terms of readability and meaning similarity. This report presents the evaluation results, along with descriptions of the SR’18 tracks, data and evaluation methods. For full descriptions of the participating systems, please see the separate system reports elsewhere in this volume.

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Underspecified Universal Dependency Structures as Inputs for Multilingual Surface Realisation
Simon Mille | Anja Belz | Bernd Bohnet | Leo Wanner
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation

In this paper, we present the datasets used in the Shallow and Deep Tracks of the First Multilingual Surface Realisation Shared Task (SR’18). For the Shallow Track, data in ten languages has been released: Arabic, Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. For the Deep Track, data in three languages is made available: English, French and Spanish. We describe in detail how the datasets were derived from the Universal Dependencies V2.0, and report on an evaluation of the Deep Track input quality. In addition, we examine the motivation for, and likely usefulness of, deriving NLG inputs from annotations in resources originally developed for Natural Language Understanding (NLU), and assess whether the resulting inputs supply enough information of the right kind for the final stage in the NLG process.

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Morphosyntactic Tagging with a Meta-BiLSTM Model over Context Sensitive Token Encodings
Bernd Bohnet | Ryan McDonald | Gonçalo Simões | Daniel Andor | Emily Pitler | Joshua Maynez
Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

The rise of neural networks, and particularly recurrent neural networks, has produced significant advances in part-of-speech tagging accuracy. One characteristic common among these models is the presence of rich initial word encodings. These encodings typically are composed of a recurrent character-based representation with dynamically and pre-trained word embeddings. However, these encodings do not consider a context wider than a single word and it is only through subsequent recurrent layers that word or sub-word information interacts. In this paper, we investigate models that use recurrent neural networks with sentence-level context for initial character and word-based representations. In particular we show that optimal results are obtained by integrating these context sensitive representations through synchronized training with a meta-model that learns to combine their states.

2017

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Shared Task Proposal: Multilingual Surface Realization Using Universal Dependency Trees
Simon Mille | Bernd Bohnet | Leo Wanner | Anja Belz
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Natural Language Generation

We propose a shared task on multilingual Surface Realization, i.e., on mapping unordered and uninflected universal dependency trees to correctly ordered and inflected sentences in a number of languages. A second deeper input will be available in which, in addition, functional words, fine-grained PoS and morphological information will be removed from the input trees. The first shared task on Surface Realization was carried out in 2011 with a similar setup, with a focus on English. We think that it is time for relaunching such a shared task effort in view of the arrival of Universal Dependencies annotated treebanks for a large number of languages on the one hand, and the increasing dominance of Deep Learning, which proved to be a game changer for NLP, on the other hand.

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Dependency Language Models for Transition-based Dependency Parsing
Juntao Yu | Bernd Bohnet
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Parsing Technologies

In this paper, we present an approach to improve the accuracy of a strong transition-based dependency parser by exploiting dependency language models that are extracted from a large parsed corpus. We integrated a small number of features based on the dependency language models into the parser. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, we evaluate our parser on standard English and Chinese data where the base parser could achieve competitive accuracy scores. Our enhanced parser achieved state-of-the-art accuracy on Chinese data and competitive results on English data. We gained a large absolute improvement of one point (UAS) on Chinese and 0.5 points for English.

2016

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Generalized Transition-based Dependency Parsing via Control Parameters
Bernd Bohnet | Ryan McDonald | Emily Pitler | Ji Ma
Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

2015

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Inverted indexing for cross-lingual NLP
Anders Søgaard | Željko Agić | Héctor Martínez Alonso | Barbara Plank | Bernd Bohnet | Anders Johannsen
Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)

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Data-driven sentence generation with non-isomorphic trees
Miguel Ballesteros | Bernd Bohnet | Simon Mille | Leo Wanner
Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

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Visualizing Deep-Syntactic Parser Output
Juan Soler-Company | Miguel Ballesteros | Bernd Bohnet | Simon Mille | Leo Wanner
Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Demonstrations

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ParsPer: A Dependency Parser for Persian
Mojgan Seraji | Bernd Bohnet | Joakim Nivre
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling 2015)

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Exploring Confidence-based Self-training for Multilingual Dependency Parsing in an Under-Resourced Language Scenario
Juntao Yu | Bernd Bohnet
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling 2015)

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Domain Adaptation for Dependency Parsing via Self-Training
Juntao Yu | Mohab Elkaref | Bernd Bohnet
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Parsing Technologies

2014

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UBham: Lexical Resources and Dependency Parsing for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
Viktor Pekar | Naveed Afzal | Bernd Bohnet
Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2014)

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Exploring Options for Fast Domain Adaptation of Dependency Parsers
Viktor Pekar | Juntao Yu | Mohab El-karef | Bernd Bohnet
Proceedings of the First Joint Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically Rich Languages and Syntactic Analysis of Non-Canonical Languages

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Automatic Feature Selection for Agenda-Based Dependency Parsing
Miguel Ballesteros | Bernd Bohnet
Proceedings of COLING 2014, the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers

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Deep-Syntactic Parsing
Miguel Ballesteros | Bernd Bohnet | Simon Mille | Leo Wanner
Proceedings of COLING 2014, the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers

2013

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Finding Dependency Parsing Limits over a Large Spanish Corpus
Muntsa Padró | Miguel Ballesteros | Héctor Martínez | Bernd Bohnet
Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing

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Towards the Annotation of Penn TreeBank with Information Structure
Bernd Bohnet | Alicia Burga | Leo Wanner
Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing

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Joint Morphological and Syntactic Analysis for Richly Inflected Languages
Bernd Bohnet | Joakim Nivre | Igor Boguslavsky | Richárd Farkas | Filip Ginter | Jan Hajič
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Volume 1

Joint morphological and syntactic analysis has been proposed as a way of improving parsing accuracy for richly inflected languages. Starting from a transition-based model for joint part-of-speech tagging and dependency parsing, we explore different ways of integrating morphological features into the model. We also investigate the use of rule-based morphological analyzers to provide hard or soft lexical constraints and the use of word clusters to tackle the sparsity of lexical features. Evaluation on five morphologically rich languages (Czech, Finnish, German, Hungarian, and Russian) shows consistent improvements in both morphological and syntactic accuracy for joint prediction over a pipeline model, with further improvements thanks to lexical constraints and word clusters. The final results improve the state of the art in dependency parsing for all languages.

2012

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The Best of Both Worlds – A Graph-based Completion Model for Transition-based Parsers
Bernd Bohnet | Jonas Kuhn
Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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Stacking of Dependency and Phrase Structure Parsers
Richárd Farkas | Bernd Bohnet
Proceedings of COLING 2012

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Data-driven Dependency Parsing With Empty Heads
Wolfgang Seeker | Richárd Farkas | Bernd Bohnet | Helmut Schmid | Jonas Kuhn
Proceedings of COLING 2012: Posters

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Towards a Surface Realization-Oriented Corpus Annotation
Leo Wanner | Simon Mille | Bernd Bohnet
INLG 2012 Proceedings of the Seventh International Natural Language Generation Conference

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The Surface Realisation Task: Recent Developments and Future Plans
Anja Belz | Bernd Bohnet | Simon Mille | Leo Wanner | Michael White
INLG 2012 Proceedings of the Seventh International Natural Language Generation Conference

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Generating Non-Projective Word Order in Statistical Linearization
Bernd Bohnet | Anders Björkelund | Jonas Kuhn | Wolfgang Seeker | Sina Zarriess
Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning

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A Transition-Based System for Joint Part-of-Speech Tagging and Labeled Non-Projective Dependency Parsing
Bernd Bohnet | Joakim Nivre
Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning

2011

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<StuMaBa>: From Deep Representation to Surface
Bernd Bohnet | Simon Mille | Benoît Favre | Leo Wanner
Proceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation

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Features for Phrase-Structure Reranking from Dependency Parses
Richárd Farkas | Bernd Bohnet | Helmut Schmid
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Parsing Technologies

2010

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Open Soucre Graph Transducer Interpreter and Grammar Development Environment
Bernd Bohnet | Leo Wanner
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)

Graph and tree transducers have been applied in many NLP areas―among them, machine translation, summarization, parsing, and text generation. In particular, the successful use of tree rewriting transducers for the introduction of syntactic structures in statistical machine translation contributed to their popularity. However, the potential of such transducers is limited because they do not handle graphs and because they ”consume” the source structure in that they rewrite it instead of leaving it intact for intermediate consultations. In this paper, we describe an open source tree and graph transducer interpreter, which combines the advantages of graph transducers and two-tape Finite State Transducers and surpasses the limitations of state-of-the-art tree rewriting transducers. Along with the transducer, we present a graph grammar development environment that supports the compilation and maintenance of graph transducer grammatical and lexical resources. Such an environment is indispensable for any effort to create consistent large coverage NLP-resources by human experts.

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The UMUS System for Named Entity Generation at GREC 2010
Benoit Favre | Bernd Bohnet
Proceedings of the 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference

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Top Accuracy and Fast Dependency Parsing is not a Contradiction
Bernd Bohnet
Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2010)

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Broad Coverage Multilingual Deep Sentence Generation with a Stochastic Multi-Level Realizer
Bernd Bohnet | Leo Wanner | Simon Mille | Alicia Burga
Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2010)

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Informed ways of improving data-driven dependency parsing for German
Wolfgang Seeker | Bernd Bohnet | Lilja Øvrelid | Jonas Kuhn
Coling 2010: Posters

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A High-Performance Syntactic and Semantic Dependency Parser
Anders Björkelund | Bernd Bohnet | Love Hafdell | Pierre Nugues
Coling 2010: Demonstrations

2009

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Generation of Referring Expression with an Individual Imprint
Bernd Bohnet
Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG 2009)

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Efficient Parsing of Syntactic and Semantic Dependency Structures
Bernd Bohnet
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2009): Shared Task

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ICSI-CRF: The Generation of References to the Main Subject and Named Entities Using Conditional Random Fields
Benoit Favre | Bernd Bohnet
Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Language Generation and Summarisation (UCNLG+Sum 2009)

2008

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IS-G: The Comparison of Different Learning Techniques for the Selection of the Main Subject References
Bernd Bohnet
Proceedings of the Fifth International Natural Language Generation Conference

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The Fingerprint of Human Referring Expressions and their Surface Realization with Graph Transducers
Bernd Bohnet
Proceedings of the Fifth International Natural Language Generation Conference

2007

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The induction and evaluation of word order rules using corpora based on the two concepts of topological models
Bernd Bohnet
Proceedings of the Workshop on Using corpora for natural language generation

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IS-FBN, IS-FBS, IS-IAC: the adaptation of two classic algorithms for the generation of referring expresssions in order to produce expressions like humans do
Bernd Bohnet
Proceedings of the Workshop on Using corpora for natural language generation

2004

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Mapping Dependency Structures to Phrase Structures and the Automatic Acquisition of Mapping Rules
Bernd Bohnet | Halyna Seniv
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’04)

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Referring Expression Generation as a Search Problem
Bernd Bohnet | Robert Dale
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2004

2003

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Deriving the Communicative Structure in Applied NLG
Leo Wanner | Bernd Bohnet | Mark Giereth
Proceedings of the 9th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG-2003) at EACL 2003

2001

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On Using a Parallel Graph Rewriting Formalism in Generation
Bernd Bohnet | Leo Wanner
Proceedings of the ACL 2001 Eighth European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (EWNLG)

2000

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A development Environment for an MTT-Based Sentence Generator
Bernd Bohnet | Andreas Langjahr | Leo Wanner
INLG’2000 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Natural Language Generation

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