Abstract
The domain adaptation task was aimed at investigating techniques for adapting state–of–the–art dependency parsing systems to new domains. Both the language dealt with, i.e. Italian, and the target domain, namely the legal domain, represent two main novelties of the task organised at Evalita 2011 with respect to previous domain adaptation initiatives. In this paper, we define the task and describe how the datasets were created from different resources. In addition, we characterize the different approaches of the participating systems, report the test results, and provide a first analysis of these results.
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Dell’Orletta, F., Marchi, S., Montemagni, S., Venturi, G., Agnoloni, T., Francesconi, E. (2013). Domain Adaptation for Dependency Parsing at Evalita 2011. In: Magnini, B., Cutugno, F., Falcone, M., Pianta, E. (eds) Evaluation of Natural Language and Speech Tools for Italian. EVALITA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7689. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35828-9_7
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