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The DCU-EPFL enhanced dependency parser at the IWPT 2021 shared task

Barry, James orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-3051-585X, Mohammadshahi, Alireza, Wagner, Joachim orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-8290-3849, Foster, Jennifer orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-7789-4853 and Henderson, James orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-3714-4799 (2021) The DCU-EPFL enhanced dependency parser at the IWPT 2021 shared task. In: 17th International Conference on Parsing Technologies and the IWPT 2021 Shared Task on Parsing into Enhanced Universal Dependencies (IWPT 2021), 6 August 2021, Online.

Abstract
We describe the DCU-EPFL submission to the IWPT 2021 Parsing Shared Task: From Raw Text to Enhanced Universal Dependencies. The task involves parsing Enhanced UD graphs, which are an extension of the basic dependency trees designed to be more facilitative towards representing semantic structure. Evaluation is carried out on 29 treebanks in 17 languages and participants are required to parse the data from each language starting from raw strings. Our approach uses the Stanza pipeline to preprocess the text files, XLM-RoBERTa to obtain contextualized token representations, and an edge-scoring and labeling model to predict the enhanced graph. Finally, we run a postprocessing script to ensure all of our outputs are valid Enhanced UD graphs. Our system places 6th out of 9 participants with a coarse Enhanced Labeled Attachment Score (ELAS) of 83.57. We carry out additional post-deadline experiments which include using Trankit for pre-processing, XLM-RoBERTa LARGE, treebank concatenation, and multitask learning between a basic and an enhanced dependency parser. All of these modifications improve our initial score and our final system has a coarse ELAS of 88.04.
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Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:Yes
Subjects:Computer Science > Artificial intelligence
Computer Science > Computational linguistics
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Research Institutes and Centres > ADAPT
Published in: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Parsing Technologies and the IWPT 2021 Shared Task on Parsing into Enhanced Universal Dependencies (IWPT 2021). . Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
Publisher:Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Official URL:https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.iwpt-1.22
Copyright Information:© 2021 The Association for Computational Linguistics and The Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing
Funders:Science Foundation Ireland, European Regional Development Fund, Swiss National Science Foundation
ID Code:28291
Deposited On:27 Apr 2023 15:22 by Joachim Wagner . Last Modified 27 Apr 2023 15:22
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