A neural network for coordination boundary prediction

Jessica Ficler, Yoav Goldberg

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Abstract

We propose a neural-network based model for coordination boundary prediction. The network is designed to incorporate two signals: the similarity between conjuncts and the observation that replacing the whole coordination phrase with a conjunct tends to produce a coherent sentences. The modeling makes use of several LSTM networks. The model is trained solely on conjunction annotations in a Treebank, without using external resources. We show improvements on predicting coordination boundaries on the PTB compared to two state-of-the-art parsers; as well as improvement over previous coordination boundary prediction systems on the Genia corpus.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEMNLP 2016 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages23-32
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781945626258
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
Event2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2016 - Austin, United States
Duration: 1 Nov 20165 Nov 2016

Publication series

NameEMNLP 2016 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings

Conference

Conference2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAustin
Period1/11/165/11/16

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Association for Computational Linguistics

Funding

This work was supported by The Israeli Science Foundation (grant number 1555/15) as well as the German Research Foundation via the German-Israeli Project Cooperation (DIP, grant DA 1600/1-1).

FundersFunder number
DIPDA 1600/1-1
German-Israeli Project Cooperation
Israeli Science Foundation1555/15
The Israeli Science Foundation
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development

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