Automatic dependency parsing of Estonian: what linguistic features to include?

In this paper, we investigate the role of linguistically motivated input features and pre-processing in advancing dependency parsing of Estonian. In particular, we focus on parsers that take morphological features as explicit inputs, and investigate the effect of a) training data size, b) the choice...

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Publicado en:Language Resources & Evaluation Vol. 59; no. 2; pp. 1467 - 1495
Autores principales: Laur, Sven, Orasmaa, Siim, Eiche, Sandra, Särg, Dage
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Publicado: Springer Nature Jun2025
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          https://ror.org/03z77qz90 Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Narva mnt 18, 51009, Tartu, Estonia
          https://ror.org/03z77qz90 Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics, University of Tartu, Jakobi 2, 51005, Tartu, Estonia
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        Clause annotations
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