Parsing as pretraining

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Recent analyses suggest that encoders pretrained for language modeling capture certain morpho-syntactic structure. However, probing frameworks for word vectors still do not report results on standard setups such as constituent and dependency parsing. This paper addresses this problem and does full parsing (on English) relying only on pretraining architectures – and no decoding. We first cast constituent and dependency parsing as sequence tagging. We then use a single feed-forward layer to directly map word vectors to labels that encode a linearized tree. This is used to: (i) see how far we can reach on syntax modelling with just pretrained encoders, and (ii) shed some light about the syntax-sensitivity of different word vectors (by freezing the weights of the pretraining network during training). For evaluation, we use bracketing F1-score and las, and analyze in-depth differences across representations for span lengths and dependency displacements. The overall results surpass existing sequence tagging parsers on the ptb (93.5%) and end-to-end en-ewt ud (78.8%).
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020)
PublisherAAAI Press
Publication date2020
Pages9114-9121.
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-57735-835-0
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Publication statusPublished - 2020
EventThirty-Forth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence: AAAI 2020 - New York, United States
Duration: 7 Feb 202012 Feb 2020
https://aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI-20/

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ConferenceThirty-Forth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
LandUnited States
ByNew York
Periode07/02/202012/02/2020
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