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Cool. What is the measure of word dependency? I.e., I'll agree that in John threw the trash out "threw" and "out" are dependent on one another. But is that an
by matt_morgan 11y ago
Cool. What is the measure of word dependency? I.e., I'll agree that in
John threw the trash out
"threw" and "out" are dependent on one another. But is that an either/or, or are there degrees? It seems like "threw" and "trash" are also "dependent" in that they don't make independent sense.
- willcannings 11y agoThey used sentence dependency graphs - in this sentence "John", "trash" and "out" are dependencies of "threw". There's a few variants, but the graph construction rules are standardised. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_grammar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_grammar
- canjobear 11y agoSpecifically, we used hand-parsed corpora developed by Google and a whole bunch of computational linguists over the last 15 years. The dependency representation is of course an incomplete picture of how words hang together in a sentence. But it's the only format that's flexible enough that you could dream of parsing 37 languages to (approximately) the same standard.
- dreamling 11y agoAll your replies in this thread are more clear/interesting than the original linked article. Very cool stuff.