Paper ID: 2402.02782

From Partial to Strictly Incremental Constituent Parsing

Ana Ezquerro, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, David Vilares

We study incremental constituent parsers to assess their capacity to output trees based on prefix representations alone. Guided by strictly left-to-right generative language models and tree-decoding modules, we build parsers that adhere to a strong definition of incrementality across languages. This builds upon work that asserted incrementality, but that mostly only enforced it on either the encoder or the decoder. Finally, we conduct an analysis against non-incremental and partially incremental models.

Submitted: Feb 5, 2024