Unlexicalised Hidden Variable Models of Split Dependency Grammars

This paper investigates transforms of split dependency grammars into unlexicalised context-free grammars annotated with hidden symbols. Our best unlexicalised grammar achieves an accuracy of 88% on the Penn Treebank data set, that represents a 50% reduction in error over previously published results on unlexicalised dependency parsing.

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