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In this paper an exploitation of the verb valency lexicons for the Czech parsing system Syntis presented and an effective implementation is described that uses the syntactic information in the complex valency frames to resolve some of the standard parsing ambiguities, thereby improving the analysis results. We discuss the implementation in detail and provide evaluation showing improvements in parsing accuracy on the Brno Phrasal Treebank.
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Jakubıček, M., Kovář, V. (2013). Enhancing Czech Parsing with Verb Valency Frames. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7816. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37247-6_23
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