A Truly Joint Neural Architecture for Segmentation and Parsing

Danit Yshaayahu Levi, Reut Tsarfaty

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Abstract

Contemporary multilingual dependency parsers can parse a diverse set of languages, but for Morphologically Rich Languages (MRLs), performance is attested to be lower than other languages. The key challenge is that, due to high morphological complexity and ambiguity of the space-delimited input tokens, the linguistic units that act as nodes in the tree are not known in advance. Pre-neural dependency parsers for MRLs subscribed to the joint morpho-syntactic hypothesis, stating that morphological segmentation and syntactic parsing should be solved jointly, rather than as a pipeline where segmentation precedes parsing. However, neural state-of-the-art parsers to date use a strict pipeline. In this paper we introduce a joint neural architecture where a lattice-based representation preserving all morphological ambiguity of the input is provided to an arc-factored model, which then solves the morphological segmentation and syntactic parsing tasks at once. Our experiments on Hebrew, a rich and highly ambiguous MRL, demonstrate state-of-the-art performance on parsing, tagging and segmentation of the Hebrew section of UD, using a single model. This proposed architecture is LLM-based and language agnostic, providing a solid foundation for MRLs to obtain further performance improvements and bridge the gap with other languages.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference
EditorsYvette Graham, Matthew Purver, Matthew Purver
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages1408-1420
Number of pages13
ISBN (Electronic)9798891760882
StatePublished - 2024
Externally publishedYes
Event18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2024 - St. Julian�s, Malta
Duration: 17 Mar 202422 Mar 2024

Publication series

NameEACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference
Volume1

Conference

Conference18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2024
Country/TerritoryMalta
CitySt. Julian�s
Period17/03/2422/03/24

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