Parsing and disfluency placement

Donald Engel; Eugene Charniak; Mark Johnson

doi:10.3115/1118693.1118700

Parsing and disfluency placement

Donald Engel, Eugene Charniak, Mark Johnson

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It has been suggested that some forms of speech disfluencies, most notable interjections and parentheticals, tend to occur disproportionally at major clause boundaries [6] and thus might serve to aid parsers in establishing these boundaries. We have tested a current statistical parser [1] on Switchboard text with and without interjections and parentheticals and found that the parser performed better when not faced with these extra phenomena. This suggest that for current parsers, at least, interjection and parenthetical placement does not help in the parsing process.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Place of Publication	Stroudsburg, PA
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	49-54
Number of pages	6
Volume	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3115/1118693.1118700
Publication status	Published - 2002
Externally published	Yes
Event	Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (2002) - Philadelphia, United States Duration: 6 Jul 2002 → 7 Jul 2002

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Conference	Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (2002)
Abbreviated title	EMNLP 2002
Country/Territory	United States
City	Philadelphia
Period	6/07/02 → 7/07/02

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Engel, D, Charniak, E & Johnson, M 2002, Parsing and disfluency placement. in Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. vol. 10, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Stroudsburg, PA, pp. 49-54, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (2002), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 6/07/02. https://doi.org/10.3115/1118693.1118700

Parsing and disfluency placement. / Engel, Donald; Charniak, Eugene; Johnson, Mark.
Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Vol. 10 Stroudsburg, PA: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2002. p. 49-54.

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