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This paper investigates the effect of a set of verbal features in data-driven dependency parsing of Swedish. Following an error analysis of a baseline parser, we show that the addition of information on verbal features such as tense and voice can give significant improvements over this baseline and, in particular, in the analysis of syntactic arguments. We furthermore show the importance of the binary property of finiteness for the parsing of Scandinavian and demonstrate that highly similar effects may be achieved with automatically acquired information.
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Øvrelid, L. (2008). Finite Matters. In: Nordström, B., Ranta, A. (eds) Advances in Natural Language Processing. GoTAL 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5221. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85287-2_47
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