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A General Method for Transforming Standard Parsers into Error-Repair Parsers

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Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (CICLing 2009)

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A desirable property for any system dealing with unrestricted natural language text is robustness, the ability to analyze any input regardless of its grammaticality. In this paper we present a novel, general transformation technique to automatically obtain robust, error-repair parsers from standard non-robust parsers. The resulting error-repair parsing schema is guaranteed to be correct when our method is applied to a correct parsing schema verifying certain conditions that are weak enough to be fulfilled by a wide variety of parsers used in natural language processing.

Partially supported by Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia and FEDER (HUM2007-66607-C04) and Xunta de Galicia (PGIDIT07SIN005206PR, INCITE08E1R104022ES, INCITE08ENA305025ES, INCITE08PXIB302179PR and Rede Galega de Procesamento da Linguaxe e Recuperación de Información).

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  1. Departamento de Computación, Universidade da Coruña, Spain

    Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez & Miguel A. Alonso

  2. Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Informática, Universidade de Vigo, Spain

    Manuel Vilares

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    Alexander Gelbukh

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Gómez-Rodríguez, C., Alonso, M.A., Vilares, M. (2009). A General Method for Transforming Standard Parsers into Error-Repair Parsers. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5449. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00382-0_17

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