Cross-lingual Parse Disambiguation based on Semantic Correspondence

We present a system for cross-lingual parse disambiguation, exploiting the assumption that the meaning of a sentence remains unchanged during translation and the fact that different languages have different ambiguities. We simultaneously reduce ambiguity in multiple languages in a fully automatic way. Evaluation shows that the system reliably discards dispreferred parses from the raw parser output, which results in a pre-selection that can speed up manual treebanking.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2012
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Lea Frermann, Francis Bond
• Keywords: ACL 2012, Ambiguities, Computational Linguistics, Parser Output, Pre Selection