Computational Dependency Theory

K. Gerdes, E. Hajičová, L. Wanner, Eva Hajicová, Leo Wanner

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781614993513
• eBook ISBN: 9781614993520
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Semantics
• Index: Computer Science

Dependencies – directed labeled graph structures representing hierarchical relations between morphemes, words, and semantic units – are the standard representation in many fields of computational linguistics. The linguistic significance of these structures often remains vague, however, and those working in the field stress the need for the development of a common notational and formal basis. Although dependency analysis has become quasi-hegemonic in Natural Language Processing (NLP), the connection between computational linguistics and dependency linguists remains sporadic. But theoretical dependency linguists and computational linguists have much to share. This book presents papers from the International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling 2011) held in Barcelona, Spain, in September 2011. Beginning with what may be the first formal definition of dependency structure, the book continues with papers covering subjects such as: the interface of the syntactic structures with semantics; mapping semantic structures to text surface by means of statistical language generation; formalization of dependency; advances in dependency parsing; and the link between statistical and rule-based dependency parsing. This comprehensive collection gives a coherent overview of recent advances in the interplay of linguistics and natural language engineering around dependency grammars, ranging from definitional challenges of syntactic functions to formal grammars, tree bank development, and parsing issues

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Preface
• List of Authors
• Contents
• Defining Dependencies (and Constituents)
• Looking Behind the Scenes of Syntactic Dependency Corpus Annotation: Towards a Motivated Annotation Schema of Surface-Syntax in Spanish
• A Dependency-Based Analysis of Treebank Annotation Errors
• On Deriving Semantic Representations from Dependencies: A Practical Approach for Evaluating Meaning in Learner Corpora
• Valence Patterns of Parts of Speech in Chinese Language Networks
• One Step Further Towards Stochastic Semantic Sentence Generation
• Dependency and Valency: From Structural Syntax to Constructive Adpositional Grammars
• Structural Bootstrapping of Large Scale Categorial Dependency Grammars
• ''CDG Lab'': An Integrated Environment for Categorial Dependency Grammar and Dependency Treebank Development
• Graph-Based and Transition-Based Dependency Parsers with Hash Kernels
• Predictive Incremental Parsing and Its Evaluation
• Comparing Rule-Based and Data-Driven Dependency Parsing of Learner Language
• A Case of Hybrid Parsing: Rules Refined by Empirical and Corpus Statistics
• Subject Index
• Author Index