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Training Parsers on Partial Trees: A Cross-language Comparison

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Training Parsers on Partial Trees: A Cross-language Comparison
We present a study that compares data-driven dependency parsers obtained by means of annotation projection between language pairs of varying structural similarity. We show how the partial dependency trees projected from English to Dutch, Italian and German can be exploited to train parsers for the target languages. We evaluate the parsers against manual gold standard annotations and find that the projected parsers substantially outperform our heuristic baseline by 9
Kathrin Spreyer, Lilja Øvrelid, Jonas Kuhn
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Type Conference
Year 2010
Where LREC
Authors Kathrin Spreyer, Lilja Øvrelid, Jonas Kuhn
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