Syntactic Dependency Tree

A Syntactic Dependency Tree is a data object that describes the syntactic structure of a sentence according to some Dependency Grammar.

• Example(s):
  • (walked (dog (the)(big)) (home))
• See: Syntactic Constituent Tree.

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References

2007

• (Fundel et al., 2007) ⇒ Katrin Fundel, R. Kuffner, and R. Zimmer. (2007). “RelEx--relation extraction using dependency parse trees. Bioinformatics. 2007 Feb 1;23(3):365-71. (paper)
  • QUOTE: As an extension to standard relation extraction pipelines, we propose the use of dependency parse trees (Klein and Manning, 2002, 2003; Mel’cuk, 1988) as a means for biomedical relation extraction. Dependency parse trees reveal non-local dependencies within sentences, i.e. between words that are far apart in a sentence. Sentences of biomedical texts tend to be long and complicated and frequently mention a number of possible effectors and effectees. Dependency parse trees provide a useful structure for the sentences by annotating edges with dependency types, e.g. subject, auxiliary, modifier.

2004

• (Hacioglu, 2004) ⇒ K. Hacioglu. (2004). “Semantic Role Labeling Using Dependency Trees.” In: Proceedings of COLING-2004. (paper.pdf)

2003

• Klein, D. and Manning, C.D. (2003). Accurate unlexicalized parsing. In: Proceedings of the 41st Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

2002

• Klein, D. and Manning, C.D. (2002). Fast exact inference with a factored model for natural language parsing. Adv. Neural Inform. Proceedings of Syst., 15, 3–10.

1988

• Mel’cuk,I. (1988) Dependency Syntax: Theory and Practice. State University Press of New York, NY.

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