Using Tri-lexical Dependencies in LFG Parse Disambiguation

Aoife Cahill, Marion Weller, Christian Rohrer, and Ulrich Heid

Abstract

Proceedings of LFG09; CSLI Publications On-line

In this paper we describe experiments where we automatically extract large lists of tri-lexical dependencies. We investigate how effective they are in PP attachment disambiguation by integrating them into a log-linear model for parse disambiguation. We show that we achieve a statistically significant improvement in parse accuracy with the new model that incorporates the trilexical dependencies.