Dependency parsing

• Main Author: Kübler, Sandra.
• Other Authors: McDonald, Ryan., Nivre, Joakim.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, c2009.
• Series: Synthesis lectures on human language technologies (Online) ; # 2.
• Subjects: Parsing (Computer grammar); Dependency grammar.; Natural language processing (Computer science); Computational linguistics.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess
• Item Description: Part of: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science.; Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on January 8, 2009).; Series from website.
• Physical Description: 1 electronic text (115 p. : ill.) : digital file.; Also available in print.
• Format: Mode of access: World Wide Web.; System requirements: Adobe Acrobat reader.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-114).
• ISBN: 9781598295979 (electronic bk.); 9781598295962 (pbk.)
• Access: Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to subscribers or individual document purchasers.

Dependency-based methods for syntactic parsing have become increasingly popular in natural language processing in recent years. This book gives a thorough introduction to the methods that are most widely used today. After an introduction to dependency grammar and dependency parsing, followed by a formal characterization of the dependency parsing problem, the book surveys the three major classes of parsing models that are in current use: transition-based, graph-based, and grammar-based models. It continues with a chapter on evaluation and one on the comparison of different methods, and it closes with a few words on current trends and future prospects of dependency parsing. The book presupposes a knowledge of basic concepts in linguistics and computer science, as well as some knowledge of parsing methods for constituency-based representations.