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This paper proposes a hierarchical model to parse both English and Chinese sentences. This is done by iteratively constructing simple constituents first, so that complex ones could be detected reliably with richer contextual information in the following processes. Evaluation on the Penn WSJ Treebank and the Penn Chinese Treebank using maximum entropy models shows that our method can achieve a good performance with more flexibility for future improvement.
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Li, J., Zhou, G., Zhu, Q., Qian, P. (2008). Syntactic Parsing with Hierarchical Modeling. In: Li, H., Liu, T., Ma, WY., Sakai, T., Wong, KF., Zhou, G. (eds) Information Retrieval Technology. AIRS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4993. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68636-1_64
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