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In Chinese, dependency analysis has been shown to be a powerful syntactic parser because the order of phrases in a sentence is relatively free compared with English. Conventional dependency parsers require a number of sophisticated rules that have to be handcrafted by linguists, and are too cumbersome to maintain. To solve the problem, a parser using SVM (Support Vector Machine) is introduced. First, a new strategy of dependency analysis is proposed. Then some chosen feature types are used for learning and for creating the modification matrix using SVM. Finally, the dependency of phrases in the sentence is generated. Experiments conducted to analyze how each type of feature affects parsing accuracy, showed that the model can increase accuracy of the dependency parser by 9.2%.
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Xu, Y., Zhang, F. Using SVM to construct a Chinese dependency parser. J. Zhejiang Univ. - Sci. A 7, 199–203 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1631/jzus.2006.A0199
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1631/jzus.2006.A0199