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

16 Dec 2024arXiv:2412.11543archive 2025-07-28

Behzad Shayegh, Hobie H. -B. Lee, Xiaodan Zhu, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, Lili Mou

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 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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Unsupervised Dependency Parsing Penn Treebank Ensemble (selected w/ society entropy) UAS 67.3 #1 of 6 Archive leaderboard report

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