Monolingual Phrase Alignment as Parse Forest Mapping

Sora Kadotani, Yuki Arase


Abstract
We tackle the problem of monolingual phrase alignment conforming to syntactic structures. The existing method formalises the problem as unordered tree mapping; hence, the alignment quality is easily affected by syntactic ambiguities. We address this problem by expanding the method to align parse forests rather than 1-best trees, where syntactic structures and phrase alignment are simultaneously identified. The proposed method achieves efficient alignment by mapping forests on a packed structure. The experimental results indicated that our method improves the phrase alignment quality of the state-of-the-art method by aligning forests rather than 1-best trees.
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2023.starsem-1.39
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Proceedings of the 12th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2023)
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July
Year:
2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Alexis Palmer, Jose Camacho-collados
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*SEM
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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449–455
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.39
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.starsem-1.39
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Sora Kadotani and Yuki Arase. 2023. Monolingual Phrase Alignment as Parse Forest Mapping. In Proceedings of the 12th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2023), pages 449–455, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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