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Deep Learning for Natural Language Parsing

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Jaf, Sardar and Calder, Calum (2019) Deep Learning for Natural Language Parsing. IEEE Access. (Unpublished)

Item Type: Article

Abstract

Natural language processing problems (such as speech recognition, text-based data mining,
and text or speech generation) are becoming increasingly important. Before effectively approaching many
of these problems, it is necessary to process the syntactic structures of the sentences. Syntactic parsing
is the task of constructing a syntactic parse tree over a sentence which describes the structure of the
sentence. Parse trees are used as part of many language processing applications. In this paper, we present
a multi-lingual dependency parser. Using advanced deep learning techniques, our parser architecture
tackles common issues with parsing such as long-distance head attachment, while using ‘architecture
engineering’ to adapt to each target language in order to reduce the feature engineering often required for
parsing tasks. We implement a parser based on this architecture to utilize transfer learning techniques to
address important issues related with limited-resourced language. We exceed the accuracy of state-of-the-art
parsers on languages with limited training resources by a considerable margin. We present promising
results for solving core problems in natural language parsing, while also performing at state-of-the-art
accuracy on general parsing tasks.

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Depositing User: Sardar Jaf

Identifiers

Item ID: 11096
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/11096
Official URL: https://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/

Users with ORCIDS

ORCID for Sardar Jaf: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-5620-0277

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Date Deposited: 10 Sep 2019 09:26
Last Modified: 30 Sep 2020 11:19

Contributors

Author: Sardar Jaf ORCID iD
Author: Calum Calder

University Divisions

Faculty of Technology
Faculty of Technology > School of Computer Science

Subjects

Computing > Artificial Intelligence
Languages > Languages
Computing > Programming
Computing > Software Engineering
Computing

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