Multilingual Natural Language Processing Applications: From Theory to Practice
by Daniel Bikel, Imed Zitouni
Chapter 3. Syntax
Anoop Sarkar
Parsing uncovers the hidden structure of linguistic input. In many applications involving natural language, the underlying predicate-argument structure of sentences can be useful. The syntactic analysis of language provides a means to explicitly discover the various predicate-argument dependencies that may exist in a sentence. In natural language processing (NLP), the syntactic analysis of natural language input can vary from being very low-level, such as simply tagging each word in the sentence with a part of speech (POS), or very high level, such as recovering a structural analysis that identifies the dependency between each predicate in the sentence and its explicit and implicit arguments. The major bottleneck ...
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