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Discriminative Log-Linear Grammars with Latent Variables

Slav Petrov · Dan Klein

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Abstract:

We demonstrate that log-linear grammars with latent variables can be practically trained using discriminative methods. Central to efficient discriminative training is a hierarchical pruning procedure which allows feature expectations to be efficiently approximated. We investigate an EM alternating procedure as well as a direct, gradient-based procedure and show that direct optimization is superior. On full-scale treebank parsing experiments, the discriminative latent models outperform both the comparable generative latent models as well as the discriminative non-latent baselines.

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