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jp-evalb: Robust Alignment-based PARSEVAL Measures

Computation and Language 2024-05-24 v1

Abstract

We introduce an evaluation system designed to compute PARSEVAL measures, offering a viable alternative to \texttt{evalb} commonly used for constituency parsing evaluation. The widely used \texttt{evalb} script has traditionally been employed for evaluating the accuracy of constituency parsing results, albeit with the requirement for consistent tokenization and sentence boundaries. In contrast, our approach, named \texttt{jp-evalb}, is founded on an alignment method. This method aligns sentences and words when discrepancies arise. It aims to overcome several known issues associated with \texttt{evalb} by utilizing the `jointly preprocessed (JP)' alignment-based method. We introduce a more flexible and adaptive framework, ultimately contributing to a more accurate assessment of constituency parsing performance.

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@article{arxiv.2405.14150,
  title  = {jp-evalb: Robust Alignment-based PARSEVAL Measures},
  author = {Jungyeul Park and Junrui Wang and Eunkyul Leah Jo and Angela Yoonseo Park},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.14150},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

To appear in The system demonstration track at NAACL-HLT 2024

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