{ "paper_id": "D07-1032", "header": { "generated_with": "S2ORC 1.0.0", "date_generated": "2023-01-19T16:19:14.399167Z" }, "title": "Probabilistic Coordination Disambiguation in a Fully-lexicalized Japanese Parser", "authors": [ { "first": "Daisuke", "middle": [], "last": "Kawahara", "suffix": "", "affiliation": { "laboratory": "", "institution": "National Institute of Information and Communications Technology", "location": { "addrLine": "3-5 Hikaridai Seika-cho, Soraku-gun", "postCode": "619-0289", "settlement": "Kyoto", "country": "Japan" } }, "email": "" }, { "first": "Sadao", "middle": [], "last": "Kurohashi", "suffix": "", "affiliation": { "laboratory": "", "institution": "Kyoto University", "location": { "addrLine": "Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku", "postCode": "606-8501", "settlement": "Kyoto", "country": "Japan" } }, "email": "" } ], "year": "", "venue": null, "identifiers": {}, "abstract": "This paper describes a probabilistic model for coordination disambiguation integrated into syntactic and case structure analysis. Our model probabilistically assesses the parallelism of a candidate coordinate structure using syntactic/semantic similarities and cooccurrence statistics. We integrate these probabilities into the framework of fully-lexicalized parsing based on largescale case frames. This approach simultaneously addresses two tasks of coordination disambiguation: the detection of coordinate conjunctions and the scope disambiguation of coordinate structures. Experimental results on web sentences indicate the effectiveness of our approach.", "pdf_parse": { "paper_id": "D07-1032", "_pdf_hash": "", "abstract": [ { "text": "This paper describes a probabilistic model for coordination disambiguation integrated into syntactic and case structure analysis. Our model probabilistically assesses the parallelism of a candidate coordinate structure using syntactic/semantic similarities and cooccurrence statistics. We integrate these probabilities into the framework of fully-lexicalized parsing based on largescale case frames. This approach simultaneously addresses two tasks of coordination disambiguation: the detection of coordinate conjunctions and the scope disambiguation of coordinate structures. Experimental results on web sentences indicate the effectiveness of our approach.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Abstract", "sec_num": null } ], "body_text": [ { "text": "Coordinate structures are a potential source of syntactic ambiguity in natural language. Since their interpretation directly affects the meaning of the text, their disambiguation is important for natural language understanding.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Introduction", "sec_num": "1" }, { "text": "Coordination disambiguation consists of the following two tasks:", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Introduction", "sec_num": "1" }, { "text": "\u2022 the detection of coordinate conjunctions,", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Introduction", "sec_num": "1" }, { "text": "\u2022 and finding the scope of coordinate structures.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Introduction", "sec_num": "1" }, { "text": "In English, for example, coordinate structures are triggered by coordinate conjunctions, such as and and or. In a coordinate structure that consists of more than two conjuncts, commas, which have various usages, also function like coordinate conjunctions. Recognizing true coordinate conjunctions from such possible coordinate conjunctions is a task of coordination disambiguation (Kurohashi, 1995) . The other is the task of identifying the range of coordinate phrases or clauses.", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 381, "end": 398, "text": "(Kurohashi, 1995)", "ref_id": "BIBREF11" } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Introduction", "sec_num": "1" }, { "text": "Previous work on coordination disambiguation has focused on the task of addressing the scope ambiguity (e.g., (Agarwal and Boggess, 1992; Goldberg, 1999; Resnik, 1999; Chantree et al., 2005) ). Kurohashi and Nagao proposed a similarity-based method to resolve both of the two tasks for Japanese (Kurohashi and Nagao, 1994) . Their method, however, heuristically detects coordinate conjunctions by considering only similarities between possible conjuncts, and thus cannot disambiguate the following cases 1 :", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 110, "end": 137, "text": "(Agarwal and Boggess, 1992;", "ref_id": "BIBREF0" }, { "start": 138, "end": 153, "text": "Goldberg, 1999;", "ref_id": "BIBREF5" }, { "start": 154, "end": 167, "text": "Resnik, 1999;", "ref_id": "BIBREF12" }, { "start": 168, "end": 190, "text": "Chantree et al., 2005)", "ref_id": "BIBREF1" }, { "start": 295, "end": 322, "text": "(Kurohashi and Nagao, 1994)", "ref_id": "BIBREF9" } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Introduction", "sec_num": "1" }, { "text": "(1) a. kanojo-to she-cmi In sentence (1a), postposition \"to\" is used as a comitative case marker, but in sentence (1b), postposition \"to\" is used as a coordinate conjunction.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Introduction", "sec_num": "1" }, { "text": "To resolve this ambiguity, predicative case frames are required. Case frames describe what kinds of nouns are related to each predicate. For example, a case frame of \"iku\" (go) has a \"to\" case slot filled with the examples such as \"kanojo\" (she) or human. On the other hand, \"goukaku-suru\" (pass an exam) does not have a \"to\" case slot but does have a \"ga\" case slot filled with \"kanojo\" (she) and \"watashi\" (I). These case frames provide the information for disambiguating the postpositions \"to\" in sentences (1a) and (1b): (1a) is not coordinate and (1b) is coordinate. This paper proposes a method for integrating coordination disambiguation into probabilistic syntactic and case structure analysis. This method simultaneously addresses the two tasks of coordination disambiguation by utilizing syntactic/semantic parallelism in possible coordinate structures and lexical preferences in large-scale case frames. We use the case frames that were automatically constructed from the web (Table 1 ). In addition, cooccurrence statistics of coordinate conjuncts are incorporated into this model.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [ { "start": 987, "end": 995, "text": "(Table 1", "ref_id": "TABREF1" } ], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Introduction", "sec_num": "1" }, { "text": "Previous work on coordination disambiguation has focused mainly on finding the scope of coordinate structures.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Related Work", "sec_num": "2" }, { "text": "Agarwal and Boggess proposed a method for identifying coordinate conjuncts (Agarwal and Boggess, 1992) . Their method simply matches parts of speech and hand-crafted semantic tags of the head words of the coordinate conjuncts. They tested their method using the Merck Veterinary Manual and found their method had an accuracy of 81.6%.", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 75, "end": 102, "text": "(Agarwal and Boggess, 1992)", "ref_id": "BIBREF0" } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Related Work", "sec_num": "2" }, { "text": "Resnik described a similarity-based approach for coordination disambiguation of nominal compounds (Resnik, 1999) . He proposed a similarity measure based on the notion of shared information content. He conducted several experiments using the Penn Treebank and reported an F-measure of approximately 70%.", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 98, "end": 112, "text": "(Resnik, 1999)", "ref_id": "BIBREF12" } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Related Work", "sec_num": "2" }, { "text": "Goldberg applied a cooccurrence-based probabilistic model to determine the attachments of ambiguous coordinate phrases with the form \"n1 p n2 cc n3\" (Goldberg, 1999) . She collected approximately 120K unambiguous pairs of two coordinate words from a raw newspaper corpus for a one-year period and estimated parameters from these statistics. Her method achieved an accuracy of 72% using the Penn Treebank.", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 149, "end": 165, "text": "(Goldberg, 1999)", "ref_id": "BIBREF5" } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Related Work", "sec_num": "2" }, { "text": "Chantree et al. presented a binary classifier for coordination ambiguity (Chantree et al., 2005) . Their model is based on word distribution information obtained from the British National Corpus. They achieved an F-measure (\u03b2 = 0.25) of 47.4% using their own test set.", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 73, "end": 96, "text": "(Chantree et al., 2005)", "ref_id": "BIBREF1" } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Related Work", "sec_num": "2" }, { "text": "The previously described methods focused on coordination disambiguation. Some research has been undertaken that integrated coordination disambiguation into parsing.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Related Work", "sec_num": "2" }, { "text": "Kurohashi and Nagao proposed a Japanese parsing method that included coordinate structure detection (Kurohashi and Nagao, 1994) . Their method first detects coordinate structures in a sentence, and then heuristically determines the dependency structure of the sentence under the constraints of the detected coordinate structures. Their method correctly analyzed 97 Japanese sentences out of 150.", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 100, "end": 127, "text": "(Kurohashi and Nagao, 1994)", "ref_id": "BIBREF9" } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Related Work", "sec_num": "2" }, { "text": "Charniak and Johnson used some features of syntactic parallelism in coordinate structures for their MaxEnt reranking parser (Charniak and Johnson, 2005) . The reranker achieved an F-measure of 91.0%, which is higher than that of their generative parser (89.7%). However, they used a numerous number of features, and the contribution of the (Dubey et al., 2006) . They obtained an F-measure increase of 0.4% over their baseline parser (73.0%). Experiments with a lexicalized parser were not conducted in their work.", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 124, "end": 152, "text": "(Charniak and Johnson, 2005)", "ref_id": "BIBREF2" }, { "start": 340, "end": 360, "text": "(Dubey et al., 2006)", "ref_id": "BIBREF4" } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Related Work", "sec_num": "2" }, { "text": "A number of machine learning-based approaches to Japanese parsing have been developed. Among them, the best parsers are the SVM-based dependency analyzers (Kudo and Matsumoto, 2002; Sassano, 2004) . In particular, Sassano added some features to improve his parser by enabling it to detect coordinate structures (Sassano, 2004) . However, the added features did not contribute to improving the parsing accuracy. This failure can be attributed to the inability to consider global parallelism.", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 155, "end": 181, "text": "(Kudo and Matsumoto, 2002;", "ref_id": "BIBREF8" }, { "start": 182, "end": 196, "text": "Sassano, 2004)", "ref_id": "BIBREF13" }, { "start": 311, "end": 326, "text": "(Sassano, 2004)", "ref_id": "BIBREF13" } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Related Work", "sec_num": "2" }, { "text": "In Japanese, the bunsetsu is a basic unit of dependency that consists of one or more content words and the following zero or more function words. A bunsetsu corresponds to a base phrase in English and \"eojeol\" in Korean.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Coordination Ambiguity in Japanese", "sec_num": "3" }, { "text": "Coordinate structures in Japanese are classified into three types. The first type is the coordinate noun phrase.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Coordination Ambiguity in Japanese", "sec_num": "3" }, { "text": "(2) nagai long", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Coordination Ambiguity in Japanese", "sec_num": "3" }, { "text": "enpitsu-to pencil-cnj keshigomu-wo eraser-acc katta bought", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Coordination Ambiguity in Japanese", "sec_num": "3" }, { "text": "(bought a long pencil and an eraser)", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Coordination Ambiguity in Japanese", "sec_num": "3" }, { "text": "We can find these phrases by referring to the words listed in Table 2 -a. The second type is the coordinate predicative clause, in which two or more predicates form a coordinate structure. We can find these clauses by referring to the words and ending forms listed in We can find these structures by referring to the words listed in Table 2 -c and also the correspondence of case-marking postpositions. For all of these types, we can detect the possibility of a coordinate structure by looking for a coordination key bunsetsu that accompanies one of the words listed in Table 2 (in total, we have 52 coordination expressions). That is to say, the left and right sides of a coordination key bunsetsu constitute possible preand post-conjuncts, and the key bunsetsu is located at the end of the pre-conjunct. The size of the conjuncts corresponds to the scope of the coordination.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [ { "start": 62, "end": 69, "text": "Table 2", "ref_id": "TABREF2" }, { "start": 333, "end": 340, "text": "Table 2", "ref_id": "TABREF2" }, { "start": 570, "end": 577, "text": "Table 2", "ref_id": "TABREF2" } ], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Coordination Ambiguity in Japanese", "sec_num": "3" }, { "text": "We assess the parallelism of potential coordinate structures in a probabilistic parsing model. In this puroguramingu gengo-wa 2 2 0 2 2 2 0 0 2 0 (prog. language) mondai kaiketsu-no 2 0 2 4 2 0 0 2 0 (problem solution) arugorizumu-wo 0 2 2 4 0 0 2 0 (algorithm) hyogen dekiru 0 0 0 2 4 0 2 (can express) kijutsuryoku-to 2 2 0 0 2 0 (descriptive power) keisanki-no 2 0 0 2 0 (computer) kinou-wo 0 0 2 0 (function) jubun-ni 2 0 2 (sufficiently) kudou dekiru 0 2 (can drive)", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Calculating Similarity between Possible Coordinate Conjuncts", "sec_num": "4" }, { "text": "wakugumi-ga 0 (framework) hitsuyou-dearu. section, we describe a method for calculating similarities between potential coordinate conjuncts.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Calculating Similarity between Possible Coordinate Conjuncts", "sec_num": "4" }, { "text": "To measure the similarity between potential preand post-conjuncts, a lot of work on the coordination disambiguation used the similarity between conjoined heads. However, not only the conjoined heads but also other components in conjuncts have some similarity and furthermore structural parallelism. Therefore, we use a method to calculate the similarity between two whole coordinate conjuncts (Kurohashi and Nagao, 1994) . The remainder of this section contains a brief description of this method.", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 393, "end": 420, "text": "(Kurohashi and Nagao, 1994)", "ref_id": "BIBREF9" } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Calculating Similarity between Possible Coordinate Conjuncts", "sec_num": "4" }, { "text": "To calculate similarity between two series of bunsetsus, a triangular matrix, A, is used (illustrated in Figure 1) .", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [ { "start": 105, "end": 114, "text": "Figure 1)", "ref_id": "FIGREF1" } ], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Calculating Similarity between Possible Coordinate Conjuncts", "sec_num": "4" }, { "text": "EQUATION", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [ { "start": 0, "end": 8, "text": "EQUATION", "ref_id": "EQREF", "raw_str": "A = (a(i, j)) (0 \u2264 i \u2264 l; i \u2264 j \u2264 l)", "eq_num": "(1)" } ], "section": "Calculating Similarity between Possible Coordinate Conjuncts", "sec_num": "4" }, { "text": "where l is the number of bunsetsus in a sentence, diagonal element a(i, j) is the i-th bunsetsu, and element a(i, j) (i < j) is the similarity value between bunsetsus b i and b j . A similarity value between two bunsetsus is calculated on the basis of POS matching, exact word matching, and their semantic closeness in a thesaurus tree (Kurohashi and Nagao, 1994) . We use the Bunruigoihyo thesaurus, which contains 96,000 Japanese words (The National Institute for Japanese Language, 2004).", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 336, "end": 363, "text": "(Kurohashi and Nagao, 1994)", "ref_id": "BIBREF9" } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Calculating Similarity between Possible Coordinate Conjuncts", "sec_num": "4" }, { "text": "To detect a coordinate structure involving a key bunsetsu, b n , we consider only a partial matrix (denoted A n ), that is, the upper right part of b n ( Figure 1) .", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [ { "start": 154, "end": 164, "text": "Figure 1)", "ref_id": "FIGREF1" } ], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Calculating Similarity between Possible Coordinate Conjuncts", "sec_num": "4" }, { "text": "A n = (a(i, j)) (0 \u2264 i \u2264 n; n + 1 \u2264 j \u2264 l) (2)", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Calculating Similarity between Possible Coordinate Conjuncts", "sec_num": "4" }, { "text": "To specify correspondences between bunsetsus in potential pre-and post-conjuncts, a path is defined as follows:", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Calculating Similarity between Possible Coordinate Conjuncts", "sec_num": "4" }, { "text": "EQUATION", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [ { "start": 0, "end": 8, "text": "EQUATION", "ref_id": "EQREF", "raw_str": "path ::= (a(p 1 , m), a(p 2 , m \u2212 1), . . . , a(p m\u2212n , n + 1))", "eq_num": "(3)" } ], "section": "Calculating Similarity between Possible Coordinate Conjuncts", "sec_num": "4" }, { "text": "where", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Calculating Similarity between Possible Coordinate Conjuncts", "sec_num": "4" }, { "text": "n + 1 \u2264 m \u2264 l, a(p 1 , m) = 0, p 1 = n, p i \u2265 p i+1 , (1 \u2264 i \u2264 m \u2212 n \u2212 1).", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Calculating Similarity between Possible Coordinate Conjuncts", "sec_num": "4" }, { "text": "That is, a path represents a series of elements from a non-zero element in the lowest row in A n to an element in the leftmost column in A n . The path has an only element in each column and extends toward the upper left. The series of bunsetsus on the left side of the path and the series under the path are potential conjuncts for key b n . Figure 2 shows an example of a path. A path score is defined based on the following criteria:", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [ { "start": 343, "end": 351, "text": "Figure 2", "ref_id": "FIGREF2" } ], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Calculating Similarity between Possible Coordinate Conjuncts", "sec_num": "4" }, { "text": "\u2022 the sum of each element's points on the path", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Calculating Similarity between Possible Coordinate Conjuncts", "sec_num": "4" }, { "text": "\u2022 penalty points when the path extends nondiagonally (which causes conjuncts of unbalanced lengths)", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Calculating Similarity between Possible Coordinate Conjuncts", "sec_num": "4" }, { "text": "\u2022 bonus points on expressions signaling the beginning or ending of a coordinate structure, such as \"kaku\" (each) and nado\" (and so on)", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Calculating Similarity between Possible Coordinate Conjuncts", "sec_num": "4" }, { "text": "\u2022 the total score of the above criteria is divided by the square root of the number of bunsetsus covered by the path for normalization", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Calculating Similarity between Possible Coordinate Conjuncts", "sec_num": "4" }, { "text": "The score of each path is calculated using a dynamic programming method. We consider each path as a candidate of pre-and post-conjuncts.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Calculating Similarity between Possible Coordinate Conjuncts", "sec_num": "4" }, { "text": "This section describes a method of integrating coordination disambiguation into a probabilistic parsing model. The integrated model is based on a fullylexicalized probabilistic model for Japanese syntactic and case structure analysis (Kawahara and Kurohashi, 2006b ).", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 234, "end": 264, "text": "(Kawahara and Kurohashi, 2006b", "ref_id": "BIBREF7" } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Integrated Probabilistic Model for Syntactic, Coordinate and Case Structure Analysis", "sec_num": "5" }, { "text": "This model gives a probability to each possible dependency structure, T , and case structure, L, of the input sentence, S, and outputs the syntactic, coordinate and case structure that have the highest probability. That is to say, the model selects the syntactic structure, T best , and the case structure, L best , that maximize the probability, P (T, L|S):", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Outline of the Model", "sec_num": "5.1" }, { "text": "EQUATION", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [ { "start": 0, "end": 8, "text": "EQUATION", "ref_id": "EQREF", "raw_str": "(T best , L best ) = argmax (T,L) P (T, L|S) = argmax (T,L) P (T, L, S) P (S) = argmax (T,L) P (T, L, S)", "eq_num": "(4)" } ], "section": "Outline of the Model", "sec_num": "5.1" }, { "text": "The last equation is derived because P (S) is constant.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Outline of the Model", "sec_num": "5.1" }, { "text": "The model considers a clause as a generation unit and generates the input sentence from the end of the sentence in turn. The probability P (T, L, S) is defined as the product of probabilities for generating clause C i as follows:", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Outline of the Model", "sec_num": "5.1" }, { "text": "EQUATION", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [ { "start": 0, "end": 8, "text": "EQUATION", "ref_id": "EQREF", "raw_str": "P (T, L, S) = \u220f i=1..n P (C i , rel ih i |C h i )", "eq_num": "(5)" } ], "section": "Outline of the Model", "sec_num": "5.1" }, { "text": "where n is the number of clauses in S, C h i is C i 's modifying clause, and rel ih i is the dependency relation between C i and C h i . The main clause, C n , at the end of a sentence does not have a modifying head, but a virtual clause C hn = EOS (End Of Sentence) is inserted. Dependency relation rel ih i is first classified into two types C (coordinate) and D (normal dependency), and C is further divided into five classes according to the binned similarity (path score) of conjuncts. Therefore, rel ih i can be one of the following six classes.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Outline of the Model", "sec_num": "5.1" }, { "text": "EQUATION", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [ { "start": 0, "end": 8, "text": "EQUATION", "ref_id": "EQREF", "raw_str": "rel ih i = {D, C0, C1, C2, C3, C4}", "eq_num": "(6)" } ], "section": "Outline of the Model", "sec_num": "5.1" }, { "text": "For instance, C0 represents a coordinate relation with a similarity of less than 1, and C4 represents a coordinate relation with a similarity of 4 or more. For example, consider the sentence shown in Figure 3. There are four possible dependency structures in this figure, and the product of the probabilities for each structure indicated below the tree is calculated. Finally, the model chooses the structure with the highest probability (in this case T 1 is chosen).", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [ { "start": 200, "end": 206, "text": "Figure", "ref_id": null } ], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Outline of the Model", "sec_num": "5.1" }, { "text": "Clause C i is decomposed into its clause type, f i , (including the predicate's inflection and function words) and its remaining content part C i . Clause C h i is also decomposed into its content part, C h i , and its clause type, f h i .", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Outline of the Model", "sec_num": "5.1" }, { "text": "EQUATION", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [ { "start": 0, "end": 8, "text": "EQUATION", "ref_id": "EQREF", "raw_str": "P (C i , rel ih i |C h i ) = P (C i , f i , rel ih i |C h i , f h i ) = P (C i , rel ih i |f i , C h i , f h i ) \u00d7 P (f i |C h i , f h i ) \u2248 P (C i , rel ih i |f i , C h i ) \u00d7 P (f i |f h i )", "eq_num": "(7)" } ], "section": "Outline of the Model", "sec_num": "5.1" }, { "text": "Equation 7is derived because the content part, C i , is usually independent of its modifying head type, f h i , and in most cases, the type, f i , is independent of the content part of its modifying head, C h i . We call P (C i , rel ih i |f i , C h i ) generative probability of a case and coordinate structure, and P (f i |f h i ) generative probability of a clause type. The latter is the probability of generating function words including topic markers and punctuation marks, and is estimated using a syntactically annotated corpus in the same way as (Kawahara and Kurohashi, 2006b) .", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 555, "end": 586, "text": "(Kawahara and Kurohashi, 2006b)", "ref_id": "BIBREF7" } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Outline of the Model", "sec_num": "5.1" }, { "text": "The generative probability of a case and coordinate structure can be rewritten as follows:", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Outline of the Model", "sec_num": "5.1" }, { "text": "EQUATION", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [ { "start": 0, "end": 8, "text": "EQUATION", "ref_id": "EQREF", "raw_str": "P (C i , rel ih i |f i , C h i ) = P (C i |rel ih i , f i , C h i ) \u00d7 P (rel ih i |f i , C h i ) \u2248 P (C i |rel ih i , f i , C h i ) \u00d7 P (rel ih i |f i )", "eq_num": "(8)" } ], "section": "Outline of the Model", "sec_num": "5.1" }, { "text": "Equation 8is derived because dependency relations (coordinate or not) heavily depend on modifier's types including coordination keys. We call", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Outline of the Model", "sec_num": "5.1" }, { "text": "P (C i |rel ih i , f i , C h i )", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Outline of the Model", "sec_num": "5.1" }, { "text": "generative probability of a case structure, and P (rel ih i |f i ) generative probability of a coordinate structure. The following two subsections describe these probabilities.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Outline of the Model", "sec_num": "5.1" }, { "text": "The most important feature to decide whether two clauses are coordinate is coordination keys. Therefore, we consider a coordination key, k i , as clause type f i . The generative probability of a coordinate structure, P (rel ih i |f i ), is defined as follows:", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Generative Probability of Coordinate Structure", "sec_num": "5.2" }, { "text": "EQUATION", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [ { "start": 0, "end": 8, "text": "EQUATION", "ref_id": "EQREF", "raw_str": "P (rel ih i |f i ) = P (rel ih i |k i )", "eq_num": "(9)" } ], "section": "Generative Probability of Coordinate Structure", "sec_num": "5.2" }, { "text": "We classified coordination keys into 52 classes according to the classification proposed by (Kurohashi and Nagao, 1994) . If type f i does not contain a coordination key, the relation is always D (normal dependency), that is P (rel ih i |f i ) = P (D|\u03c6) = 1.", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 92, "end": 119, "text": "(Kurohashi and Nagao, 1994)", "ref_id": "BIBREF9" } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Generative Probability of Coordinate Structure", "sec_num": "5.2" }, { "text": "The generative probability of a coordinate structure was estimated from a syntactically annotated corpus using maximum likelihood. We used the Kyoto Text Corpus (Kurohashi and Nagao, 1998) , which consists of 40K Japanese newspaper sentences.", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 161, "end": 188, "text": "(Kurohashi and Nagao, 1998)", "ref_id": "BIBREF10" } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Generative Probability of Coordinate Structure", "sec_num": "5.2" }, { "text": "We consider that a case structure consists of a predicate, v i , a case frame, CF l , and a case assignment, CA k . Case assignment CA k represents correspondences between the input case components and the case slots shown in Figure 4 . Thus, the generative probability of a case structure is decomposed as follows: Figure 4 : Example of case assignment.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [ { "start": 226, "end": 234, "text": "Figure 4", "ref_id": null }, { "start": 316, "end": 324, "text": "Figure 4", "ref_id": null } ], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Generative Probability of Case Structure", "sec_num": "5.3" }, { "text": "EQUATION", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [ { "start": 0, "end": 8, "text": "EQUATION", "ref_id": "EQREF", "raw_str": "P (C i |rel ih i , f i , C h i ) = P (v i , CF l , CA k |rel ih i , f i , C h i ) = P (v i |rel ih i , f i , C h i ) \u00d7 P (CF l |rel ih i , f i , C h i , v i ) \u00d7 P (CA k |rel ih i , f i , C h i , v i , CF l ) \u2248 P (v i |rel ih i , f i , w h i ) \u00d7 P (CF l |v i ) \u00d7 P (CA k |CF l , f i )", "eq_num": "(10" } ], "section": "Generative Probability of Case Structure", "sec_num": "5.3" }, { "text": "The above approximation is given because it is natural to consider that the predicate v i depends on its modifying head w h i instead of the whole modifying clause, that the case frame CF l only depends on the predicate v i , and that the case assignment CA k depends on the case frame CF l and the clause type f i .", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Generative Probability of Case Structure", "sec_num": "5.3" }, { "text": "The generative probabilities of case frames and case assignments are estimated from case frames themselves in the same way as (Kawahara and Kurohashi, 2006b ). The remainder of this section describes the generative probability of a predicate,", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 126, "end": 156, "text": "(Kawahara and Kurohashi, 2006b", "ref_id": "BIBREF7" } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Generative Probability of Case Structure", "sec_num": "5.3" }, { "text": "P (v i |rel ih i , f i , w h i ).", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Generative Probability of Case Structure", "sec_num": "5.3" }, { "text": "The generative probability of a predicate captures cooccurrences of coordinate or non-coordinate phrases. This kind of information is not handled in case frames, which aggregate only predicateargument relations.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Generative Probability of Case Structure", "sec_num": "5.3" }, { "text": "The generative probability of a predicate mainly depends on a coordination key in the clause type, f i , as well as the generative probability of a coordinate structure. We define this probability as follows:", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Generative Probability of Case Structure", "sec_num": "5.3" }, { "text": "P (v i |rel ih i , f i , w h i ) = P (v i |rel ih i , k i , w h i )", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Generative Probability of Case Structure", "sec_num": "5.3" }, { "text": "If C i is a nominal clause and consists of a noun n i , we consider the following probability in stead of equation 10:", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Generative Probability of Case Structure", "sec_num": "5.3" }, { "text": "P n (C i |rel ih i , f i , C h i ) \u2248 P (n i |rel ih i , f i , w h i )", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Generative Probability of Case Structure", "sec_num": "5.3" }, { "text": "This is because a noun does not have a case frame and any case components in the current framework.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Generative Probability of Case Structure", "sec_num": "5.3" }, { "text": "To estimate these probabilities, we first applied a conventional parsing system with coordination disambiguation to a huge corpus, and collected coordinate bunsetsus from the parses. We used KNP 2 (Kurohashi and Nagao, 1994) as the parser and a web corpus consisting of 470M Japanese sentences (Kawahara and Kurohashi, 2006a) . The generative probability of a predicate was estimated from the collected coordinate bunsetsus using maximum likelihood.", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 197, "end": 224, "text": "(Kurohashi and Nagao, 1994)", "ref_id": "BIBREF9" }, { "start": 294, "end": 325, "text": "(Kawahara and Kurohashi, 2006a)", "ref_id": "BIBREF6" } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Generative Probability of Case Structure", "sec_num": "5.3" }, { "text": "The proposed model considers all the possible dependency structures including coordination ambiguities. To reduce this high computational cost, we introduced the CKY framework to the search.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Practical Issue", "sec_num": "5.4" }, { "text": "Each parameter in the model is smoothed by using several back-off levels in the same way as (Collins, 1999) . Smoothing parameters are optimized using a development corpus.", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 92, "end": 107, "text": "(Collins, 1999)", "ref_id": "BIBREF3" } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Practical Issue", "sec_num": "5.4" }, { "text": "We evaluated the coordinate structures and dependency structures that were outputted by our model. The case frames used in this paper were automatically constructed from 470M Japanese sentences obtained from the web. Some examples of the case frames are listed in Table 1 (Kawahara and Kurohashi, 2006a) .", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 272, "end": 303, "text": "(Kawahara and Kurohashi, 2006a)", "ref_id": "BIBREF6" } ], "ref_spans": [ { "start": 264, "end": 271, "text": "Table 1", "ref_id": "TABREF1" } ], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Experiments", "sec_num": "6" }, { "text": "In this work, the parameters related to unlexical types are calculated from a small tagged corpus of newspaper articles, and lexical parameters are obtained from a huge web corpus. To evaluate the effectiveness of our fully-lexicalized model, our experiments are conducted using web sentences. As the test corpus, we prepared 759 web sentences 3 . The web sentences were manually annotated using the same criteria as the Kyoto Text Corpus. We also used the Kyoto Text Corpus as a development corpus to optimize the smoothing parameters. The system input was automatically tagged using the JUMAN morphological analyzer 4 .", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Experiments", "sec_num": "6" }, { "text": "We used two baseline systems for comparative purposes: the rule-based dependency parser, KNP (Kurohashi and Nagao, 1994) , and the probabilistic model of syntactic and case structure analysis (Kawahara and Kurohashi, 2006b) , in which coordination disambiguation is the same as that of KNP.", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 93, "end": 120, "text": "(Kurohashi and Nagao, 1994)", "ref_id": "BIBREF9" }, { "start": 192, "end": 223, "text": "(Kawahara and Kurohashi, 2006b)", "ref_id": "BIBREF7" } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Experiments", "sec_num": "6" }, { "text": "First, we evaluated detecting coordinate structures, namely whether a coordination key bunsetsu triggers a coordinate structure. Table 3 lists the experimental results. The F-measure of our method is slightly higher than that of the baseline method (KNP). In particular, our method achieved good precision.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [ { "start": 129, "end": 136, "text": "Table 3", "ref_id": "TABREF6" } ], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Evaluation of Detection of Coordinate Structures", "sec_num": "6.1" }, { "text": "Secondly, we evaluated the dependency structures analyzed by the proposed model. Evaluating the scope ambiguity of coordinate structures is subsumed within this dependency evaluation. The dependency structures obtained were evaluated with regard to dependency accuracy -the proportion of correct dependencies out of all dependencies except for the last dependency in the sentence end 5 . Table 4 lists the dependency accuracy. In this table, \"syn\" represents the rule-based dependency parser, KNP, \"syn+case\" represents the probabilistic parser of syntactic and case structure (Kawahara and Kurohashi, 2006b) , and \"syn+case+coord\" represents our proposed model. The proposed model significantly outperformed both of the baseline systems (McNemar's test; p < 0.01).", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 577, "end": 608, "text": "(Kawahara and Kurohashi, 2006b)", "ref_id": "BIBREF7" } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Evaluation of Dependency Parsing", "sec_num": "6.2" }, { "text": "In the table, the dependency accuracies are classified into four types on the basis of the bunsetsu classes (PB: predicate bunsetsu and NB: noun bunsetsu) of a dependent and its head. \"syn+case\" outperformed \"syn\". In particular, the accuracy of predicate-argument relations (\"NB\u2192PB\") was improved, but the accuracies of \"NB\u2192NB\" and \"PB\u2192PB\" decreased. \"syn+case+coord\" outperformed the two baselines for all of the types. Not only the accuracy of predicate-argument relations (\"NB\u2192PB\") but also the accuracies of coordinate noun/predicate bunsetsus (related to \"NB\u2192NB\" and \"PB\u2192PB\") were improved. These improvements are conduced by the integration of coordination disambiguation and syntactic/case structure analysis. To compare our results with a state-of-the-art discriminative dependency parser, we input the same test corpus into an SVM-based Japanese dependency parser, CaboCha 6 (Kudo and Matsumoto, 2002) . Its dependency accuracy was 86.3% (3,829/4,436) , which is equivalent to that of \"syn\" (KNP). This low accuracy is attributed to the out-of-domain training corpus. That is, the parser is trained on a newspaper corpus, whereas the test corpus is obtained from the web, because of the non-availability of a tagged web corpus that is large enough to train a supervised parser. Figure 5 shows some analysis results, where the dotted lines represent the analysis by the baseline, \"syn+case\", and the solid lines represent the analysis by the proposed method, \"syn+case+coord\". These sentences are incorrectly analyzed by the baseline but correctly analyzed by the proposed method. For instance, in sentence (1), the noun phrase coordination of \"apurikeesyon\" (application) and \"doraiba\" (driver) can be correctly analyzed. This is because the case frame of \"insutooru-sareru\" (installed) is likely to generate \"doraiba\", and \"apurikeesyon\" and \"doraiba\" are likely to be coordinated.", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 885, "end": 911, "text": "(Kudo and Matsumoto, 2002)", "ref_id": "BIBREF8" }, { "start": 948, "end": 961, "text": "(3,829/4,436)", "ref_id": null } ], "ref_spans": [ { "start": 1288, "end": 1296, "text": "Figure 5", "ref_id": null } ], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Evaluation of Dependency Parsing", "sec_num": "6.2" }, { "text": "One of the causes of errors in dependency parsing is the mismatch between analysis results and annotation criteria. As per the annotation criteria, each bunsetsu has only one modifying head. Therefore, in some cases, even if analysis results are semantically correct, they are judged as incorrect from the viewpoint of the annotation. For example, in sentence (4) in Figure 6 , the baseline method, \"syn\", correctly recognized the head of \"iin-wa\" (commissioner-TM) as \"hirakimasu\" (open). However, the proposed method incorrectly judged it as \"oujite-imasuga\" (offer). Both analysis results can be considered to be semantically correct, but from the viewpoint of 6 http://chasen.org/\u02dctaku/software/cabocha/ our annotation criteria, the latter is not a syntactic relation (i.e., incorrect), but an ellipsis relation. This kind of error is caused by the strong lexical preference considered in our method.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [ { "start": 367, "end": 375, "text": "Figure 6", "ref_id": null } ], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Discussion", "sec_num": "6.3" }, { "text": "To address this problem, it is necessary to simultaneously evaluate not only syntactic relations but also indirect relations, such as ellipses and anaphora. This kind of mismatch also occurred for the detection of coordinate structures.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Discussion", "sec_num": "6.3" }, { "text": "Another errors were caused by an inherent characteristic of generative models. Generative models have some advantages, such as their application to language models. However, it is difficult to incorporate various features that seem to be useful for addressing syntactic and coordinate ambiguity. We plan to apply discriminative reranking to the n-best parses produced by our generative model in the same way as (Charniak and Johnson, 2005) .", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 411, "end": 439, "text": "(Charniak and Johnson, 2005)", "ref_id": "BIBREF2" } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Discussion", "sec_num": "6.3" }, { "text": "This paper has described an integrated probabilistic model for coordination disambiguation and syntactic/case structure analysis. This model takes advantage of lexical preference of a huge raw corpus and large-scale case frames and performs coordination disambiguation and syntactic/case analysis simultaneously. The experiments indicated the effectiveness of our model. Our future work involves incorporating ellipsis resolution to develop an integrated model for syntactic, case, and ellipsis analysis.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Conclusion", "sec_num": "7" }, { "text": "? ?", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Conclusion", "sec_num": "7" }, { "text": "(1) insutooru-sareteiru apurikeesyon-oyobi doraiba-tono kyougou-niyori dousa-shinai baai-ga arimasu. installed application driver conflict not work case-nom exist (due to the conflict between installed application and driver, there is a case that (it) does not work.)", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Conclusion", "sec_num": "7" }, { "text": "? ?", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Conclusion", "sec_num": "7" }, { "text": "(2) ... kuroji-wa 41oku-doru-to, zennen-yori 10oku-doru gensyou-shita. surplus-TM 4.1 billion dollars preceding year-abl 1 billion dollars reduced (... surplus was 4.1 billion dollars and was reduced by 1 billion dollars from the preceding year.)", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Conclusion", "sec_num": "7" }, { "text": "? ?", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Conclusion", "sec_num": "7" }, { "text": "(3) ... gurupu-wa sugu ugokidasu-node wakaru-nodaga, ugokidasa-nai gurupu-mo aru. group-TM soon start to work see not start to work group also be (... can see the groups that start to work soon, but there are groups that do not start to work.) Figure 5 : Examples of correct analysis results. The dotted lines represent the analysis by the baseline, \"syn+case\", and the solid lines represent the analysis by the proposed method, \"syn+case+coord\".", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [ { "start": 244, "end": 252, "text": "Figure 5", "ref_id": null } ], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Conclusion", "sec_num": "7" }, { "text": "? ?", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Conclusion", "sec_num": "7" }, { "text": "(4) iin-wa, jitaku-de minasan-karano gosoudan-ni oujite-imasuga, ... soudansyo-wo hirakimasu commissioner-TM at home all of you consultation-acc offer window open (the commissioner offers consultation to all of you at home, but opens a window ...) Figure 6 : An example of incorrect analysis results caused by the mismatch between analysis results and annotation criteria.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [ { "start": 248, "end": 256, "text": "Figure 6", "ref_id": null } ], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Conclusion", "sec_num": "7" }, { "text": "In this paper, we use the following abbreviations: nom (nominative), acc (accusative), abl (ablative), cmi (comitative), cnj (conjunction) and TM (topic marker).", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "http://nlp.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/nl-resource/knp-e.html", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "The test set was not used to construct case frames and estimate probabilities.4 http://nlp.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/nl-resource/juman-e.html", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "Since Japanese is head-final, the second last bunsetsu unambiguously depends on the last bunsetsu, and the last bunsetsu has no dependency.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "", "sec_num": null } ], "back_matter": [ { "text": "This research is partially supported by special coordination funds for promoting science and technology.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Acknowledgment", "sec_num": null } ], "bib_entries": { "BIBREF0": { "ref_id": "b0", "title": "A simple but useful approach to conjunct identification", "authors": [ { "first": "Rajeev", "middle": [], "last": "Agarwal", "suffix": "" }, { "first": "Lois", "middle": [], "last": "Boggess", "suffix": "" } ], "year": 1992, "venue": "Proceedings of ACL1992", "volume": "", "issue": "", "pages": "15--21", "other_ids": {}, "num": null, "urls": [], "raw_text": "Rajeev Agarwal and Lois Boggess. 1992. 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: Expressions that indicate coordinate struc-
tures.
(a) coordinate noun phrase:
,(comma) to ya toka katsu oyobi ka aruiwa ...
(b) coordinate predicative clause:
-shi ga oyobi ka aruiwa matawa ...
(c) incomplete coordinate structure:
,(comma) oyobi narabini aruiwa ...
parallelism features is unknown.
Dubey et al. proposed an unlexicalized PCFG
parser that modified PCFG probabilities to condi-
tion the existence of syntactic parallelism
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(4) Tom-wainu-wo,Jim-waneko-wokau
Tom-TMdog-accJim-TMcat-accbuys
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baselineproposed
precision 366/460 (79.6%) 361/435 (83.0%)
recall366/447 (81.9%) 361/447 (80.8%)
F-measure-(80.7%)-(81.9%)
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synsyn+casesyn+case+coord
all3,833/4,436 (86.4%) 3,852/4,436 (86.8%) 3,893/4,436 (87.8%)
NB\u2192PB 1,637/1,926 (85.0%) 1,664/1,926 (86.4%) 1,684/1,926 (87.4%)
NB\u2192NB 1,032/1,136 (90.8%) 1,029/1,136 (90.6%) 1,037/1,136 (91.3%)
PB\u2192PB654/817 (80.0%)647/817 (79.2%)659/817 (80.7%)
PB\u2192NB510/557 (91.6%)512/557 (91.9%)513/557 (92.1%)
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