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Cross-Language Dependency Parsing Using Part-of-Speech Patterns

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The presented paper describes a simple instance-based learning method for dependency parsing, which is based solely on the part-of-speech n-grams extracted from training data. The presented method is not dependent on any lexical features (i.e. words or lemmas) or other morphological categories so model trained on one language can be directly applied to another similar language with harmonized tagset of coarse-grained part-of-speech categories. Using the instance-based learning allows us to directly evaluate predictive power of part-of-speech patterns on evaluation data from Czech and Slovak treebanks.

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The work presented in this paper was supported by the Slovak VEGA grant 1/0493/16 and Slovak KEGA grant 025TUKE-4/2015.

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Bednár, P. (2016). Cross-Language Dependency Parsing Using Part-of-Speech Patterns. In: Sojka, P., Horák, A., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech, and Dialogue. TSD 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9924. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45510-5_14

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