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"abstract": "In this paper, we propose a method to group brackets in a bracketed corpus (with lexical tags), according to their local contextual information, as a first step towards the automatic acquisition of a context-free grammar. Using a bracketed corpus, the learning task is reduced to the problem of how to determine the nonterminal label of each bracket in the corpus. In a grouping process, a single nonterminai label is assigned to each group of brackets which are similar. Two techniques, distributional analysis and hierarchical Bayesian clustering, are applied to exploit local contextual information for computing similarity between two brackets. We also show a technique developed for determining the appropriate number of bracket groups based on the concept of entropy analysis. Finally, we present a set of experimental results and evaluate the obtained results with a model solution given by humans.",
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"text": "Designing and refining a natural language grammar is a diiBcult and time-consuming task and requires a large amount of skilled effort. A hand-crafted grammar is usually not completely satisfactory and frequently fails to cover many unseen sentences. Automatic acquisition of grammars is a solution to this problem. Recently, with the increasing availability of large, machine-readable, parsed corpora, there have been numerous attempts to automatically acquire a CFG grammar through the application of enormous existing corporaILar90][Mi194][Per92][Shi95 ]. Lari and Young[Lar90] proposed so-called inside-outside algorithm, which constructs a grammar from an unbracketed corpus based on probability theory. The grammar acquired by this method is assumed to be in Chomsky normal form and a large amount of computation is required. Later, Pereira[Per92] applied this algorithm to a partially bracketed corpus to improve the computation time. Kiyono[Kiy94b] [Kiy94a] combined symbolic and statistical approaches to extract useful grammar rules from a partially bracketed corpus. To avoid generating a large number of grammar rules, some basic grammatical constraints, local boundaries constraints and X bar-theory were applied. Kiyono's approach performed a refinement of an original grammar by adding some additional rules while the inside-outside algorithm tries to construct a whole grammar from a corpus based on Maximum Likelihood. However, it is costly to obtain a suitable grammar from an unbracketed corpus and hard to evaluate results of these approaches. As the increase of the construction of bracketed corpora, an attempt to use a bracketed (tagged) corpus for grammar inference was made by Shiral[Shi95]. Shirai constructed a Japanese grammar based on some simple rules to give a name (a label) to each bracket in the corpus. To reduce the grammar size and ambiguity, some hand-encoded knowledge is applied in this approach.",
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"text": "In our work, like Shirai's approach, we make use of a bracketed corpus with lexical tags, but instead of using a set of human-encoded predefined rules to give a name (a label) to each bracket, we introduce some statistical techniques to acquire such label automatically. Using a bracketed corpus, the grammar learning task is reduced to the problem of how to determine the nonterminal label of each bracket in the corpus. More precisely, this task is concerned with the way to classify brackets to some certain groups and give each group a label. We propose a method to group brackets in a bracketed corpus (with lexical tags), according to their local contextual information, as a first step towards the automatic acquisition of a context-free grammar. In the grouping process, a single nontermina] label is assigned to each group of brackets which are similar. To do this, we apply and compare two types of techniques called distributional analysis [HarSl] and hierarchical Bayesian clustering [Iwa95] for setting a measure representing similarity among the bracket groups. We also propose a method to determine the appropriate number of bracket groups based on the concept of entropy analysis. Finally, we present a set of experimental results and evaluate our methods with a model solution given by humans.",
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"text": "In this section, we give a brief explanation of grammar acquisition using a bracketed corpus. In this work, the grammar acquisition utilizes a lexical-tagged corpus with bracketings. An example of the parse structures of two sentences in the corpus is shown graphically in Figure 1 .",
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"text": "In the parse structures, each terminal category (leaf node) is given a name (tag) while there is no label for each nonterminal category (intermediate node). With this corpus, the grammar learning task corresponds to a process to determine the nonterminal label of each bracket in the corpus. More precisely, this task is concerned with the way to classify the brackets into some certain groups and give each group a label. For instance, in Figure 1 , it is reasonable to classify the brackets 1 (c2),(c4) and (c5) into a same group and give them a same label (e.g., NP(noun phrase)). As the result, we obtain three grammar rules: NP ~ (ART)(NOUN), NP ~ (PRON)(NOUN) and NP ~ (ART)(el). To perform this task, our grammar acquisition algorithm operates in five stages as follows.",
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"text": "1A bracket corresponds to a node in In this paper, as a first step of our grammar acquisition, we focus on step (1)-(4), that is how to group nodes of which lower nodes are lexical categories. To compute the similarity of a pair of labels(in step 2), we propose two types of techniques called distributional analysis and hierarchical Bayesian cbtstering as shown in section 3. In section 4, we introduce the concept of differential entropy as the termination condition used in step (4).",
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"text": "In this section, we describe two techniques which utilize \"local context information\" to calculate similarity between two labels. The term \"local contextual information\" considered here is represented by a pair of words immediately before and after a label. In the rest of this section, we first describe distributional analysis in subsection 3.1. Next, we give the concept of Bayesian clustering in subsection 3.2.",
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"text": "Distributional analysis is a statistical method originally proposed by Harris[Harbl] to uncover regularities in the distributional relations among the features of speech. Applications of this technique are varied [Bri92] [Per93]. In this paper, we apply this technique to group similar brackets in a bracketed corpus. The detail of this technique is illustrated below. Let P1 and P2 be two probability distributions over environments. The relative entropy between P1 and P2 is:",
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"text": "Let's denote a posterior probability with P(GIC), where C is a collection of data (i.e., in Figure 2 , C = {c1,e2, ..., CN}) and G is a set of groups(clusters) (i.e., G = {gz,g2, ...}). Each group(cluster) gj is a set of data and the groups are mutually exclusive. In the initial stage, each group is a singleton set; g~ = {~} for all i. The method tries to select and merge the group pair that brings about the maximum value of the posterior probability ~ P(GIC). That is, in each step of merging, this method searches for the most plausible situation that the data in C are partitioned in the certain groups G. For instance, at a merge step h + 1 (0 < b < N -1), a data collection C has been partitioned into a set of groups G~. That is each datum e belongs to a group g E Gk. The posterior probability at the merging step/\u00a2 + 2 can be calculated using the posterior probability at the merging step/\u00a2 + 1 as shown below (for more detail, see [Iwa95] ).",
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"text": "to a constant value A -1 regardless of the merged pair. For a certain merging step, P(G~IC ) is identical independently of which groups are merged together. Therefore we can use the following measure to select the best group pair to merge. The similarity between two bracket groups(labels), g= and gv, can be defined by SIM(g=,gv). Here, the larger SIM(g=,g~) is, the more similar two brackets are.",
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"text": "In each iterative step of the merging process, we calculate differential entropy for both cases. The differential entropy of each step equals to the entropy difference between the entropy of two rules before merging and the entropy of a new rule after merging as described in the previous section.",
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"text": "4Other types of rules can be acquired in almost the same way and are left now as our further work. Figure 4 indicate the results of differential entropy (LXE calculated by the formula in section 4) when the merging process advanced with divergence and BPP as its similarity measures. There are some sharp peaks indicating the rapid fluctuation of entropy in the graphs. In this work, we use these peaks as a clue to find the timing we should to terminate the merging process. As the result, we halt up the process at the 22nd step and the 27th step for the cases of divergence and BPP, respectively. Table 2 shows the obtained grouping results. In these tables, there axe 13 groups for divergence and 8 groups for Bayesian posterior probability. To clarify the result in the tables, Some sample words of each label axe given in the appendix. Figure 4 : Differential entropy during the merging processes using divergence (left) and BPP (right)",
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"text": "There has been an increase of the construction of many types of corpora, including bracketed corpora. In this work, we attempt to use a bracketed (tagged) corpus for grammar inference. Towards the automatic acquisition of a context-free grammar, we proposed some statistical techniques to group brackets in a bracketed corpus (with lexical tags), according to their local contextual information. Two measures, divergence and Bayesian posterior probability, were introduced to express the similarity between two brackets. Merging the most similar bracket pair iteratively, a set of label groups was constructed. To terminate a merging process at appropriate timing, we proposed differential entropy as a measure to represent the entropy difference before and after merging two brackets and stopl~ed the merging process at a large fluctuation. From the experimental results compared with the model solutions given by three human evaluators, we observed that divergence gave a better solution than Bayesian posterior probability. For divergence, we obtained 84 % recall and 67 % precision, and up to 90 ~ and 82 % when considering both positive and negative measures. We also investigated the fitness of using differential entropy for terminating the merging process by way of experiment and confirmed it. In this paper, we focus on only rules with lexical categories as their right hand side. As a further work, we are on the way to introduce the techniques introduced here to acquire the other rules(rules with nonterminal categories as their right hand side). At that time, it is also necessary for us to develop some suitable evaluation techniques for assessing the obtained grammar.",
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