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Martins A.F.T., Das D., Smith N.A., Xing E.P.

EMNLP 2008 - 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference: A Meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of the ACL
2008

pp 157

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166

Abstract:

We explore a stacked framework for learning to predict dependency structures for natural language sentences. A typical approach in graph-based dependency parsing has been to assume a factorized model, where local features are used but a global function is optimized (McDonald et al., 2005b). Recently Nivre and McDonald (2008) used the output of one dependency parser to provide features for another. We show that this is an example of stacked learning, in which a second predictor is trained to improve the performance of the first. Further, we argue that this technique is a novel way of approximating rich non-local features in the second parser, without sacrificing efficient, model-optimal prediction. Experiments on twelve languages show that stacking transition-based and graph-based parsers improves performance over existing state-of-the-art dependency parsers.