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A Comparison of Alternative Parse Tree Paths for Labeling Semantic Roles

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A Comparison of Alternative Parse Tree Paths for Labeling Semantic Roles
The integration of sophisticated inference-based techniques into natural language processing applications first requires a reliable method of encoding the predicate-argument structure of the propositional content of text. Recent statistical approaches to automated predicateargument annotation have utilized parse tree paths as predictive features, which encode the path between a verb predicate and a node in the parse tree that governs its argument. In this paper, we explore a number of alternatives for how these parse tree paths are encoded, focusing on the difference between automatically generated constituency parses and dependency parses. After describing five alternatives for encoding parse tree paths, we investigate how well each can be aligned with the argument substrings in annotated text corpora, their relative precision and recall performance, and their comparative learning curves. Results indicate that constituency parsers produce parse tree paths that can more easily be alig...
Reid Swanson, Andrew S. Gordon
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Type Conference
Year 2006
Where ACL
Authors Reid Swanson, Andrew S. Gordon
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