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Prepositional phrase attachment is an important subproblem of parsing, performance on which suffers from limited availability of labelled data. We present a semi-supervised approach. We show that a discriminative lexical model trained from labelled data, and a generative lexical model learned via Expectation Maximization from unlabelled data can be combined in a product model to yield a PP-attachment model which is better than either is alone, and which outperforms the modern parser of Petrov and Klein (2007) by a significant margin. We show that, when learning from unlabelled data, it can be beneficial to model the generation of modifiers of a head collectively, rather than individually. Finally, we suggest that our pair of models will be interesting to combine using new techniques for discriminatively constraining EM.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Parsing Technologies, IWPT 2011, October 5-7, 2011, Dublin City University, Dubin, Ireland |
Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics |
Pages | 129-139 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Publication status | Published - 2011 |
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