Chinese Deterministic Dependency Analysis with Consideration of Long-Distance Dependency

H. Zhou, D. Huang, and Y. Yang (PRC)

Keywords

Chinese dependency analysis, Nivre’s algorithm, Support Vector Machines, Preference Learning, and root node finder

Abstract

According to Chinese syntax, implement a deterministic Chinese dependency analyzer based on an improved Nivre’s algorithm which considers long-distance dependency. It is difficult to parse long-distance dependency with conventional deterministic dependency analysis methods. The proposed method parses a sentence deterministically without ignoring long-distance dependency. In addition, we also construct a root node finder to divide the sentence into two sub-sentences. Support Vector Machines are applied to identify Chinese dependency structure. We compare the performance of two sorts of classifiers – Support Vector Machines and Preference Learning in root node finding. Experiments using the Harbin University of Technology Corpus show that the method outperforms previous system by 6.46% accuracy. The dependency accuracy achieves 79.44% even with small training data (4000 sentences).

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