Parsing Hebrew CHILDES transcripts

We present a syntactic parser of (transcripts of) spoken Hebrew: a dependency parser of the Hebrew CHILDES database. CHILDES is a corpus of child–adult linguistic interactions. Its Hebrew section has recently been morphologically analyzed and disambiguated, paving the way for syntactic annotation. T...

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Published in:Language Resources and Evaluation 2015-03, Vol.49 (1), p.107-145
Main Authors: Gretz, Shai, Itai, Alon, MacWhinney, Brian, Nir, Bracha, Wintner, Shuly
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adequacy
Annotations
Children
Children & youth
Computational Linguistics
Computer Science
Construction
Corpus linguistics
Dependence
Grammar
Hebrew language
Language
Language and Literature
Linguistics
Morphological analysis
Original Paper
Parsers
Parsing
Paving
Rest
Social Sciences
Syntactic analysis
Syntax
Trains
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Summary:We present a syntactic parser of (transcripts of) spoken Hebrew: a dependency parser of the Hebrew CHILDES database. CHILDES is a corpus of child–adult linguistic interactions. Its Hebrew section has recently been morphologically analyzed and disambiguated, paving the way for syntactic annotation. This paper describes a novel annotation scheme of dependency relations reflecting constructions of child and child-directed Hebrew utterances. A subset of the corpus was annotated with dependency relations according to this scheme, and was used to train two parsers (MaltParser and MEGRASP) with which the rest of the data were parsed. The adequacy of the annotation scheme to the CHILDES data is established through numerous evaluation scenarios. The paper also discusses different annotation approaches to several linguistic phenomena, as well as the contribution of morphological features to the accuracy of parsing.
ISSN:1574-020X
1572-8412
1574-0218
DOI:10.1007/s10579-013-9256-x