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Treebank-based acquisition of a Chinese lexical-functional grammar

Burke, Michael, Lam, Olivia, Cahill, Aoife orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-3519-7726, Chan, Rowena, O'Donovan, Ruth, Bodomo, Adams, van Genabith, Josef and Way, Andy orcid logoORCID: 0000-0001-5736-5930 (2004) Treebank-based acquisition of a Chinese lexical-functional grammar. In: PACLIC-18 - 18th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, 8-10 December 2004, Tokyo, Japan.

Abstract
Scaling wide-coverage, constraint-based grammars such as Lexical-Functional Grammars (LFG) (Kaplan and Bresnan, 1982; Bresnan, 2001) or Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammars (HPSG) (Pollard and Sag, 1994) from fragments to naturally occurring unrestricted text is knowledge-intensive, time-consuming and (often prohibitively) expensive. A number of researchers have recently presented methods to automatically acquire wide-coverage, probabilistic constraint-based grammatical resources from treebanks (Cahill et al., 2002, Cahill et al., 2003; Cahill et al., 2004; Miyao et al., 2003; Miyao et al., 2004; Hockenmaier and Steedman, 2002; Hockenmaier, 2003), addressing the knowledge acquisition bottleneck in constraint-based grammar development. Research to date has concentrated on English and German. In this paper we report on an experiment to induce wide-coverage, probabilistic LFG grammatical and lexical resources for Chinese from the Penn Chinese Treebank (CTB) (Xue et al., 2002) based on an automatic f-structure annotation algorithm. Currently 96.751% of the CTB trees receive a single, covering and connected f-structure, 0.112% do not receive an f-structure due to feature clashes, while 3.137% are associated with multiple f-structure fragments. From the f-structure-annotated CTB we extract a total of 12975 lexical entries with 20 distinct subcategorisation frame types. Of these 3436 are verbal entries with a total of 11 different frame types. We extract a number of PCFG-based LFG approximations. Currently our best automatically induced grammars achieve an f-score of 81.57% against the trees in unseen articles 301-325; 86.06% f-score (all grammatical functions) and 73.98% (preds-only) against the dependencies derived from the f-structures automatically generated for the original trees in 301-325 and 82.79% (all grammatical functions) and 67.74% (preds-only) against the dependencies derived from the manually annotated gold-standard f-structures for 50 trees randomly selected from articles 301-325.
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Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Chinese; lexical functional grammar;
Subjects:Computer Science > Machine translating
DCU Faculties and Centres:Research Institutes and Centres > National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT)
DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Official URL:http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/PACLIC18/index.html
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
Funders:Enterprise Ireland, EI 04/BRG/CS0366, IBM, Irish Research Council for Science Engineering and Technology
ID Code:15299
Deposited On:12 Mar 2010 16:23 by DORAS Administrator . Last Modified 25 Jan 2019 11:41
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