Justin Mott

2 paper cards in Mova's library · 2012–2014

Justin Mott wrote 2 of the papers Mova reads, in 2012–2014, most of them on Treebanks; often with Ann Bies, Seth Kulick, Anthony Kroch.

Topics: Treebanks 1

Papers

Parser Evaluation Using Derivation Trees: A Complement to evalb (2014)
The standard metric for constituency parsers, evalb, scores matching brackets, so it cannot say which construction went wrong.
Further Developments in Treebank Error Detection Using Derivation Trees (2012)
Treebank annotators sometimes bracket the same word sequence in different ways. The paper finds these cases automatically. Each tree is cut into small tree-adjoining units, and for each word sequence (a "nucleus") every instance is compared with the others in the same internal context. Instances whose reduced…