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"abstract": "A parsing system returning analyses in the form of sets of grammatical relations can obtain high precision if it hypothesises a particular relation only when it is certain that the relation is correct. We operationalise this technique-in a statistical parser using a manually-developed wide-coverage grammar of English-by only returning relations that form part of all analyses licensed by the grammar. We observe an increase in precision from 75% to over 90% (at the cost of a reduction in recall) on a test corpus of naturally-occurring text.",
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"text": "Head-dependent relationships (possibly labelled with a relation type) have been advocated as a useful level of representation for grammatical structure in a number of different large-scale languageprocessing tasks. For instance, in recent work on statistical treebank grammar parsing (e.g. Collins, 1999) high levels of accuracy have been reached using lexicalised probabilistic models over headdependent tuples. Bouma, van Noord and Malouf (2001) create dependency treebanks semi-automatically in order to induce dependency-based statistical models for parse selection. Lin (1998) , Srinivas (2000) and others have evaluated the accuracy of both phrase structure-based and dependency parsers by matching head-dependent relations against 'gold standard' relations, rather than matching (labelled) phrase structure bracketings. Research on unsupervised acquisition of lexical information from corpora, such as argument structure of predicates (Briscoe and Carroll, 1997; McCarthy, 2000) , word classes for disambiguation (Clark and Weir, 2001) , and collocations (Lin 1999) , has used grammatical relation/head/dependent tuples. Such 1 A previous version of this paper was presented at IWPT'01; this version contains new experiments and results. tuples also constitute a convenient intermediate representation in applications such as information extraction (Palmer et al., 1993; Yeh, 2000) , and document retrieval on the Web (Grefenstette, 1997) .",
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"text": "A variety of different approaches have been taken for robust extraction of relation/head/dependent tuples, or grammatical relations, from unrestricted text. Dependency parsing is a natural technique to use, and there has been some work in that area on robust analysis and disambiguation (e.g. Lafferty, Sleator and Temperley, 1992; Srinivas, 2000) . Finite-state approaches (e.g. Karlsson et al., 1995; A\u00eft-Mokhtar and Chanod, 1997; Grefenstette, 1998) have used hand-coded transducers to recognise linear configurations of words and part of speech labels associated with, for example, subject/objectverb relationships. An intermediate step may be to mark nominal, verbal etc. 'chunks' in the text and to identify the head word of each of the chunks. Statistical finite-state approaches have also been used: Brants, Skut and Krenn (1997) train a cascade of Hidden Markov Models to tag words with their grammatical functions. Approaches based on memory based learning have also used chunking as a first stage, before assigning grammatical relation labels to heads of chunks (Argamon, Dagan and Krymolowski, 1998; Buchholz, Veenstra and Daelemans, 1999) . Blaheta and Charniak (2000) assume a richer input representation consisting of labelled trees produced by a treebank grammar parser, and use the treebank again to train a further procedure that assigns grammatical function tags to syntactic constituents in the trees. Alternatively, a handwritten grammar can be used that produces 'shallow' and perhaps partial phrase structure analyses from which grammatical relations are extracted (e.g. Carroll, Minnen and Briscoe, 1998; Lin, 1998) .",
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"text": "Recently, Schmid and Rooth (2001) have described an algorithm for computing expected governor labels for terminal words in labelled headed parse trees produced by a probabilistic context-free grammar. A governor label (implicitly) encodes a grammatical relation type (such as subject or object) and a governing lexical head. The labels are expected in the sense that each is weighted by the sum of the probabilities of the trees giving rise to it, and are computed efficiently by processing the entire parse forest rather than individual trees. The set of terminal/relation/governing-head tuples will not typically constitute a globally coherent analysis, but may be useful for interfacing to applications that primarily accumulate fragments of grammatical information from text (such as for instance information extraction, or systems that acquire lexical data from corpora). The approach is not so suitable for applications that need to interpret complete and consistent sentence structures (such as the analysis phase of transfer-based machine translation). Schmid and Rooth have implemented the algorithm for parsing with a lexicalised probabilistic contextfree grammar of English and applied it in an open domain question answering system, but they do not give any practical results or an evaluation.",
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"text": "For the work reported in this paper we have extended Carroll et al.'s basic system, implementing a version of Schmid and Rooth's expected governor technique (see section 1 above) but adapted for unification-based grammar and GR-based analyses. Each sentence is analysed as a set of weighted GRs where the weight associated with each grammatical relation is computed as the sum of the probabilities of the parses that relation was derived from, divided by the sum of the probabilities of all parses. So, if we assume that Schmid and Rooth's example sentence Peter reads every paper on markup has 2 parses, one where on markup attaches to the preceding noun having overall probability \u00a2 \u00a1 \u00a3 \u00a4 \u00a6 \u00a5 and the other where it has verbal attachment with probability \u00a2 \u00a1 \u00a3 \u00a4 \u00a7",
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