A Robust Shallow Parser for Swedish

In this paper, a robust parser for Swedish is presented. The parser identifies the internal structure of phrases, but does not build full trees. In addition to phrase identification, clause boundaries are detected. The parser is designed for robustness against noisy and ill-formed data. An evaluation on 15 000 words shows that the parser’s accuracy on phrase bracketing is 88.7 per cent and the F-score for clause boundary identification is 88.3 per cent.

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