Chinese dependency parsing with large scale automatically constructed case structures

This paper proposes an approach using large scale case structures, which are automatically constructed from both a small tagged corpus and a large raw corpus, to improve Chinese dependency parsing. The case structure proposed in this paper has two characteristics: (1) it relaxes the predicate of a case structure to be all types of words which behaves as a head; (2) it is not categorized by semantic roles but marked by the neighboring modifiers attached to a head. Experimental results based on Penn Chinese Tree-bank show the proposed approach achieved 87.26% on unlabeled attachment score, which significantly outperformed the baseline parser without using case structures.