Adriane Boyd and Walt Detmar Meurers
Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Parsing German, 24-32. 2008.
Recent parsing research has started addressing the questions a) how parsers trained on different syntactic resources differ in their performance and b) how to conduct a meaningful evaluation of the parsing results across such a range of syntactic representations. Two German treebanks, Negra and TüBa-D/Z, constitute an interesting testing ground for such research given that the two treebanks make very different representational choices for this language, which also is of general interest given that German is situated between the extremes of fixed and free word order. We show that previous work comparing PCFG parsing with these two treebanks employed PARSEVAL and grammatical function comparisons which were skewed by differences between the two corpus annotation schemes. Focusing on the grammatical dependency triples as an essential dimension of comparison, we show that the two very distinct corpora result in comparable parsing performance.
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Bibtex entry:
@InProceedings{boyd-meurers:2008:PaGe,
author = {Boyd, Adriane and Meurers, Detmar},
title = {Revisiting the Impact of Different Annotation Schemes on
PCFG Parsing: A Grammatical Dependency Evaluation},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Parsing German},
month = {June},
year = {2008},
address = {Columbus, Ohio},
publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
pages = {24--32},
url = {http://purl.org/dm/papers/boyd-meurers-08.html}
}