Statistical language modeling combining n-gram and dependency grammar

1. Eran Chinthaka, Ikhyun Park Statistical language modeling combining n-gram and dependency grammar

2. Introduction • Statistical language models and ngrams • Problems with ngram models • Data sparseness • Long dependencies • Proposed Solution • Use a hybrid model of ngram and dependency grammar for language model

3. Process Evaluator Test Data (Good and Bad) Optimal Parameters Perplexity

4. Training Data System Architecture

5. Experimental Setup • Data • Brown Corpus • 28671 -- Train sentences • 9557 -- Development Sentences • 9556 -- Test Sentences • Tools • Smoother and Language Model Builder • CMU-Cambridge Statistical Language Modeling Toolkit v2 (http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/SLM/toolkit.html) • Dependency Parser • Stanford parser (http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/lex-parser.shtml)

6. Sentence Evaluation • Ngram Score • Dependency Score • Combined Score

7. Smoothing – Absolute Discounting • Ngram Language Model if if else if else if else

8. Smoothing – Absolute Discounting • Dependency Language Model if else

9. Assessment • Perplexity (Ngram only) • Perplexity (Combined)  Inappropriate

10. Assessment • Classification of sentences (good vs bad) • Bad sentence generation • Shuffle good sentences • Eg :The election will be Dec. 4 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. .  The election will be 8 8 from 4 a.m. to Dec. p.m. . • Shuffle degree = 7 (number of lost bigrams)

11. Results • Distribution of Sentences Ngram Avg. Shuffle: 12.357225 Dependency

12. Results Avg. Shuffle: 12.357225 • Classification (ngram vs. ngram+dep) False Reject NOT Improved -*- ngram -*- ngram+dep. False Accept

13. Discussion • Why no improvement • Insufficient feature exploration • Statistical nature of dependency parser • Any ideas?

14. Thank You !!