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Error Diversity Matters: An Error-Resistant Ensemble Method for Unsupervised Dependency Parsing

Computation and Language 2025-04-22 v2 Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Abstract

We address unsupervised dependency parsing by building an ensemble of diverse existing models through post hoc aggregation of their output dependency parse structures. We observe that these ensembles often suffer from low robustness against weak ensemble components due to error accumulation. To tackle this problem, we propose an efficient ensemble-selection approach that considers error diversity and avoids error accumulation. Results demonstrate that our approach outperforms each individual model as well as previous ensemble techniques. Additionally, our experiments show that the proposed ensemble-selection method significantly enhances the performance and robustness of our ensemble, surpassing previously proposed strategies, which have not accounted for error diversity.

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@article{arxiv.2412.11543,
  title  = {Error Diversity Matters: An Error-Resistant Ensemble Method for Unsupervised Dependency Parsing},
  author = {Behzad Shayegh and Hobie H. -B. Lee and Xiaodan Zhu and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung and Lili Mou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.11543},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Accepted by the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2025

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