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Dependency parsing of Polish

  • Alina Wróblewska EMAIL logo and Piotr Rybak

Abstract

The predicate-argument structure transparently encoded in dependency-based syntactic representations supports machine translation, question answering, information extraction, etc. The quality of dependency parsing is therefore a crucial issue in natural language processing. In the current paper we discuss the fundamental ideas of the dependency theory and provide an overview of selected dependency-based resources for Polish. Furthermore, we present some state-of-the-art dependency parsing systems whose models can be estimated on correctly annotated data. In the experimental part, we provide an in-depth evaluation of these systems on Polish data. Our results show that graph-based parsers, even those without any neural component, are better suited for Polish than transition-based parsing systems.


Alina Wróblewska Instytut Podstaw Informatyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk ul. Jana Kazimierza 5 01-248 Warszawa Poland

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8 Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments. The research presented in this paper was founded by SONATA 8 grant no 2014/15/D/HSS/03486 from the National Science Centre Poland and by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education as part of the investment in the CLARIN-PL research infrastructure. The computing was performed at Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center.

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