Industrial parsing of software manuals by Sutcliffe R.F.E., Koch H.-D., McElligott A. (eds.)

By Sutcliffe R.F.E., Koch H.-D., McElligott A. (eds.)

The duty of language engineering is to boost the expertise for development desktops that can practice worthy linguistic projects reminiscent of desktop assisted translation, textual content retrieval, message category and record summarisation. Such structures frequently require using a parser that could extract particular sorts of grammatical facts from pre-defined sessions of enter text.
There are many parsers already on hand to be used in language engineering platforms. notwithstanding, many various linguistic formalisms and parsing algorithms are hired. Grammatical insurance varies, as does the character of the syntactic info extracted. Direct comparability among platforms is hard simply because every one is probably going to were evaluated utilizing various attempt standards.
In this quantity, 8 assorted parsers are utilized to an analogous job, that of analysing a suite of sentences derived from software program guide manuals. every one parser is gifted in a separate bankruptcy. review of functionality is conducted utilizing a typical set of standards with the implications being awarded in a collection of tables that have a similar structure for every process. 3 extra chapters offer additional research of the consequences in addition to discussing attainable methods to the standardisation of parse tree information. 5 parse bushes are supplied for every procedure in an appendix, permitting extra direct comparability among structures by way of the reader.
The booklet may be of curiosity to scholars, researchers and practitioners within the parts of computational linguistics, desktop technological know-how, info retrieval, language engineering, linguistics and computer assisted translation.

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We pointed out several serious problems with the phrase boundary based evaluation methods and proposed a dependency based alternative. The dependency-based evaluation not only produces more meaningful scores, but also allows both dependency and constituency based parsers to be evaluated. We used the RANLT and TOSCA outputs as examples to show that constituency based parses can be automatically translated into dependency trees with a simple conversion table. This provides further evidence that the dependency-based evaluation method is able to accommodate a wide range of parsers.

For these applications, parsing is simply an extra factor or guide towards an improved `hit rate' - all could still work without syntactic analysis and annotation, but perform better with it. ) NLP systems assume that the parse-tree is to be passed on to a semantic component for knowledge extraction, a process requiring a richer syntactic annotation. 3 An Extreme Case: the `Perfect Parser' from Speech Recognition The variability of delicacy is exempli ed by one approach to parsing which is widely used in Speech And Language Technology (SALT).

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