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"text": "The inside-outside algorithm for inferring the parameters of a stochastic context-free grammar is extended to take advantage of constituent information (constituent bracketing) in a partially parsed corpus. Experiments on formal and natural language parsed corpora show that the new algorithm can achieve faster convergence and better modeling of hierarchical structure than the original one. In particular, over 90% test set bracketing accuracy was achieved for grammars inferred by our algorithm from a training set of handparsed part-of-speech strings for sentences in the Air Travel Information System spoken language corpus. Finally, the new algorithm has better time complexity than the original one when sufficient bracketing is provided.",
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"text": "The most successful stochastic language models have been based on finite-state descriptions such as n-grams or hidden Markov models (HMMs) (Jelinek et al., 1992) . However, finite-state models cannot represent the hierarchical structure of natural language and are thus ill-suited to tasks in which that structure is essential, such as language understanding or translation. It is then natural to consider stochastic versions of more powerful grammar formalisms and their grammatical inference problems. For instance, Baker (1979) generalized the parameter estimation methods for HMMs to stochastic context-free grammars (SCFGs) (Booth, 1969) as the inside-outside algorithm.",
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"text": "Unfortunately, the application of SCFGs and the original inside-outside algorithm to natural-language modeling has been so far inconclusive (Lari and Young, 1990; Jelinek et al., 1990; Lari and Young, 1991) .",
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"text": "Several reasons can be adduced for the difficulties. First, each iteration of the inside-outside algorithm on a grammar with n nonterminals may require O(n3[wl 3) time per training sentence w,",
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"text": "while each iteration of its finite-state counterpart training an HMM with s states requires at worst O(s2lwl) time per training sentence. That complexity makes the training of suff\u00c9ciently large grammars computationally impractical.",
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"text": "Second, the convergence properties of the algorithm sharply deteriorate as the number of nonterminal symbols increases. This fact can be intuitively understood by observing that the algorithm searches for the maximum of a function whose number of local maxima grows with the number of nonterminals. Finally, while SCFGs do provide a hierarchical model of the language, that structure is undetermined by raw text and only by chance will the inferred grammar agree with qualitative linguistic judgments of sentence structure. For example, since in English texts pronouns are very likely to immediately precede a verb, a grammar inferred from raw text will tend to make a constituent of a subject pronoun and the following verb.",
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"text": "Using a partially parsed corpus has several advantages. First, the the result grammars yield constituent boundaries that cannot be inferred from raw text. In addition, the number of iterations needed to reach a good grammar can be reduced; in extreme cases, a good solution is found from parsed text but not from raw text. Finally, the new algorithm has better time complexity when sufficient bracketing information is provided.",
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"text": "Informally, a partially bracketed corpus is a set of sentences annotated with parentheses marking constituent boundaries that any analysis of the corpus should respect. More precisely, we start from a corpus C consisting of bracketed strings, which are pairs e = (w,B) where w is a string and B is a bracketing of w. For convenience, we will define the length of the bracketed string c by Icl = Iwl.",
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"text": "Given a string w = wl ..-WlM, a span of w is a pair of integers (i,j) with 0 < i < j g [w[, which delimits a substring iwj = wi+y ...wj of w. The abbreviation iw will stand for iWl~ I.",
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"text": "A bracketing B of a string w is a finite set of spans on w (that is, a finite set of pairs or integers (i, j) with 0 g i < j < [w[) satisfying a consistency condition that ensures that each span (i, j) can be seen as delimiting a string iwj consisting of a sequence of one of more. The consistency condition is simply that no two spans in a bracketing may overlap, where two spans (i, j) and (k, l) overlap if either i < k < j < l or k < i < l < j. Note that there is no requirement that a bracketing of w describe fully a constituent structure of w. In fact, some or all sentences in a corpus may have empty bracketings, in which case the new algorithm behaves like the original one.",
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"text": "To present the notion of compatibility between a derivation and a bracketed string, we need first to define the span of a symbol occurrence in a context-free derivation. Let (w,B) be a bracketed string, and c~0 ==~ al :=\u00a2, ... =~ c~m = w be a derivation of w for (S)CFG G. The span of a symbol occurrence in (~1 is defined inductively as follows:",
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"text": "flAT, aj+l = /3XI\"'Xk')', where A -* XI\".Xk is a rule of G. Then the span of A in aj is (il,jk), where for each 1 < l < k, (iz,jt) is the span of Xl in aj+l-The spans in (~j of the symbol occurrences in/3 and 7 are the same as those of the corresponding symbols in ~j+l.",
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"text": "The inside-outside algorithm (Baker, 1979 ) is a reestimation procedure for the rule probabilities of a Chomsky normal-form (CNF) SCFG. It takes as inputs an initial CNF SCFG and a training corpus of sentences and it iteratively reestimates rule probabilities to maximize the probability that the grammar used as a stochastic generator would produce the corpus.",
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"text": "The intended meaning of rule probabilities in a SCFG is directly tied to the intuition of contextfreeness: a derivation is assigned a probability which is the product of the probabilities of the rules used in each step of the derivation. Contextfreeness together with the commutativity of multiplication thus allow us to identify all derivations associated to the same parse tree, and we will speak indifferently below of derivation and analysis (parse tree) probabilities. Finally, the probability of a sentence or sentential form is the sum of the probabilities of all its analyses (equivalently, the sum of the probabilities of all of its leftmost derivations from the start symbol).",
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