Simon Tannert
2020
Fast and Accurate Non-Projective Dependency Tree Linearization
Xiang Yu
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Simon Tannert
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Ngoc Thang Vu
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Jonas Kuhn
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
We propose a graph-based method to tackle the dependency tree linearization task. We formulate the task as a Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), and use a biaffine attention model to calculate the edge costs. We facilitate the decoding by solving the TSP for each subtree and combining the solution into a projective tree. We then design a transition system as post-processing, inspired by non-projective transition-based parsing, to obtain non-projective sentences. Our proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art linearizer while being 10 times faster in training and decoding.