Application of feature propagation to dependency parsing

Abstract

This paper presents a set of experiments performed on parsing the Basque Dependency Treebank. We have applied feature propagation to dependency parsing, experimenting the propagation of several morphosyntactic feature values. In the experiments we have used the output of a parser to enrich the input of a second parser. Both parsers have been generated by Maltparser, a freely data-driven dependency parser generator. The transformations, combined with the pseudoprojective graph transformation, obtain a LAS of 77.12% improving the best reported results for Basque.