More constructions, more genres: Extending Stanford Dependencies

Marie Catherine de Marneffe, Miriam Connor, Natalia Silveira, Samuel R. Bowman, Timothy Dozat, Christopher D. Manning

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    Abstract

    The Stanford dependency scheme aims to provide a simple and intuitive but linguistically sound way of annotating the dependencies between words in a sentence. In this paper, we address two limitations the scheme has suffered from: First, despite providing good coverage of core grammatical relations, the scheme has not offered explicit analyses of more difficult syntactic constructions; second, because the scheme was initially developed primarily on newswire data, it did not focus on constructions that are rare in newswire but very frequent in more informal texts, such as casual speech and current web texts. Here, we propose dependency analyses for several linguistically interesting constructions and extend the scheme to provide better coverage of modern web data.

    Original languageEnglish (US)
    Title of host publicationDepLing 2013 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Dependency Linguistics
    EditorsEva Hajicova, Kim Gerdes, Leo Wanner
    PublisherMATFYZPRESS Publishing House of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Charles University in Prague
    Pages187-196
    Number of pages10
    ISBN (Electronic)9788073782405
    StatePublished - 2013
    Event2nd International Conference on Dependency Linguistics - Prague, Czech Republic
    Duration: Aug 27 2013Aug 30 2013

    Publication series

    NameDepLing 2013 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Dependency Linguistics

    Conference

    Conference2nd International Conference on Dependency Linguistics
    Country/TerritoryCzech Republic
    CityPrague
    Period8/27/138/30/13

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Linguistics and Language

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