Comunicació presentada a Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

We introduce a novel approach to the decoding problem in transition-based parsing: heuristic backtracking. This algorithm uses a series of partial parses on the sentence to locate the best candidate parse, using confidence estimates/nof transition decisions as a heuristic to guide the starting points of the search. This allows us to achieve a parse accuracy comparable to beam search, despite using fewer transitions. When used to augment a Stack-LSTM transition-based parser, the parser shows an unlabeled attachment score of up to 93.30% for English and 87.61% for Chinese.

Miguel Ballesteros was supported by the European Commission under the contract numbers FP7-/nICT-610411 (project MULTISENSOR) and H2020-RIA-645012 (project KRISTINA).