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| Title | PASSAGE Syntactic Representation: a Minimal Common Ground for Evaluation |
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| Authors | Anne Vilnat, Patrick Paroubek, Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie, Gil Francopoulo and Marie-Laure Guénot |
| Abstract | The current PASSAGE syntactic representation is the result of 9 years ofconstant evolution with the aim of providing a common ground for evaluatingparsers of French whatever their type and supporting theory. In this paper wepresent the latest developments concerning the formalism and show first througha review of basic linguistic phenomena that it is a plausible minimal commonground for representing French syntax in the context of generic black boxquantitative objective evaluation. For the phenomena reviewed, which include:the notion of syntactic head, apposition, control and coordination, we explainhow PASSAGE representation relates to other syntactic representation schemesfor French and English, slightly extending the annotation to address Englishwhen needed. Second, we describe the XML format chosen for PASSAGE and showthat it is compliant with the latest propositions in terms of linguisticannotation standard. We conclude discussing the influence that corpus-basedevaluation has on the characteristics of syntactic representation when willingto assess the performance of any kind of parser. |
| Language | Parsing |
| Topics | Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.), Grammar and Syntax, Parsing |
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PASSAGE Syntactic Representation: a Minimal Common Ground for Evaluation |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{VILNAT10.603, author = {Anne Vilnat, Patrick Paroubek, Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie, Gil Francopoulo and Marie-Laure Guénot}, title = {PASSAGE Syntactic Representation: a Minimal Common Ground for Evaluation}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)}, year = {2010}, month = {may}, date = {19-21}, address = {Valletta, Malta}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-6-7}, language = {english} } |