Subdividing verbs to improve syntactic parsing

This paper proposes a new way to improve the performance of dependency parser: subdividing verbs according to their grammatical functions and integrating the information of verb subclasses into lexicalized parsing model. Firstly, the scheme of verb subdivision is described. Secondly, a maximum entropy model is presented to distinguish verb subclasses. Finally, a statistical parser is developed to evaluate the verb subdivision. Experimental results indicate that the use of verb subclasses has a good influence on parsing performance.