Pre- and In-Parsing Models for Neural Empty Category Detection

ACL 2018  ·  Yufei Chen, Yuan-Yuan Zhao, Weiwei Sun, Xiaojun Wan ·

Motivated by the positive impact of empty category on syntactic parsing, we study neural models for pre- and in-parsing detection of empty category, which has not previously been investigated. We find several non-obvious facts: (a) BiLSTM can capture non-local contextual information which is essential for detecting empty categories, (b) even with a BiLSTM, syntactic information is still able to enhance the detection, and (c) automatic detection of empty categories improves parsing quality for overt words. Our neural ECD models outperform the prior state-of-the-art by significant margins.

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