• A non-projective greedy dependency parser with bidirectional LSTMs 

      Vilares, David; Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2017-08)
      [Abstract]: The LyS-FASTPARSE team present BIST-COVINGTON, a neural implementation of the Covington (2001) algorithm for non-projective dependency parsing. The bidirectional LSTM approach by Kiperwasser and Goldberg (2016) ...
    • Towards fast natural language parsing: FASTPARSE ERC Starting Grant 

      Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos (Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN), 2017-09)
      [Abstract:] The goal of the FASTPARSE project (Fast Natural Language Parsing for Large-Scale NLP), funded by the European Research Council (ERC), is to achieve a breakthrough in the speed of natural language syntactic ...
    • Detecting Perspectives in Political Debates 

      Vilares, David; He, Yulan (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2017-09)
      [Abstract]: We explore how to detect people’s perspectives that occupy a certain proposition. We propose a Bayesian modelling approach where topics (or propositions) and their associated perspectives (or viewpoints) are ...
    • Tratamiento sintáctico de la negación en análisis del sentimiento monolingüe y multilingüe 

      Vilares, David; Alonso, Miguel A.; Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos (2017-09-19)
      [Abstract] Dealing with negation in a proper way is a relevant factor in order to obtain high performance sentiment analysis systems. In this framework, we present a method for the treatment of negation in Spanish that ...
    • Global Transition-based Non-projective Dependency Parsing 

      Fernández-González, Daniel; Shi, Tianze; Lee, Lillian (Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2018)
      [Absctract]: Shi, Huang, and Lee (2017a) obtained state-of-the-art results for English and Chinese dependency parsing by combining dynamic-programming implementations of transition-based dependency parsers with a minimal ...
    • Constituent Parsing as Sequence Labeling 

      Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos; Vilares, David (Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2018)
      [Absctract]: We introduce a method to reduce constituent parsing to sequence labeling. For each word wt, it generates a label that encodes: (1) the number of ancestors in the tree that the words wt and wt+1 have in common, ...
    • On the Processing and Analysis of Microtexts: From Normalization to Semantics 

      Doval, Yerai; Vilares, David (M D P I AG, 2018-09-18)
      [Abstract] User-generated content published on microblogging social platforms constitutes an invaluable source of information for diverse purposes: health surveillance, business intelligence, political analysis, etc. We ...
    • Increasing NLP Parsing Efficiency with Chunking 

      Anderson, Mark Dáibhidh; Vilares, David (M D P I AG, 2018-09-19)
      [Abstract] We introduce a “Chunk-and-Pass” parsing technique influenced by a psycholinguistic model, where linguistic information is processed not word-by-word but rather in larger chunks of words. We present preliminary ...
    • Sequence Tagging for Fast Dependency Parsing 

      Strzyz, Michalina; Vilares, David; Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos (2019)
      [Abstract] Dependency parsing has been built upon the idea of using parsing methods based on shift-reduce or graph-based algorithms in order to identify binary dependency relations between the words in a sentence. In this ...
    • Left-to-Right Dependency Parsing with Pointer Networks 

      Fernández-González, Daniel; Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos (Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2019)
      [Abstract]: We propose a novel transition-based algorithm that straightforwardly parses sentences from left to right by building n attachments, with n being the length of the input sentence. Similarly to the recent ...
    • Viable Dependency Parsing as Sequence Labeling 

      Strzyz, Michalina; Vilares, David; Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos (Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2019-06)
      [Abstract]: We recast dependency parsing as a sequence labeling problem, exploring several encodings of dependency trees as labels. While dependency parsing by means of sequence labeling had been attempted in existing work, ...
    • Parsing as Pretraining 

      Vilares, David; Strzyz, Michalina; Søgaard, Anders; Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos (2020)
      [Abstract] Recent analyses suggest that encoders pretrained for language modeling capture certain morpho-syntactic structure. However, probing frameworks for word vectors still do not report results on standard setups ...
    • Cognitive Constraints Built into Formal Grammars: Implications for Language Evolution 

      Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos; Christiansen, Morten H.; Ferrer-i-Cancho, Ramon (Ravignani, A., Barbieri, C., Martins, M., Flaherty, M., Jadoul, Y., Lattenkamp, E., Little, H., Mudd, K., Verhoef, T., 2020-04-17)
      [Abstract] We study the validity of the cognitive independence assumption using an ensemble of artificial syntactic structures from various classes of dependency grammars. Our findings show that memory limitations have ...
    • Transition-based Semantic Dependency Parsing with Pointer Networks 

      Fernández-González, Daniel; Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos (Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2020-07)
      [Abstract]: Transition-based parsers implemented with Pointer Networks have become the new state of the art in dependency parsing, excelling in producing labelled syntactic trees and outperforming graph-based models in ...
    • On the Logistical Difficulties and Findings of Jopara Sentiment Analysis 

      Agüero-Torales, Marvin M.; Vilares, David; López-Herrera, Antonio G. (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021-06)
      [Abstract] This paper addresses the problem of sentiment analysis for Jopara, a code-switching language between Guarani and Spanish. We first collect a corpus of Guarani-dominant tweets and discuss on the difficulties of ...
    • LyS A Coruña at GUA-SPA@IberLEF2023. Multi-Task Learning with Large Language Model Encoders for Guarani-Spanish Code Switching Analysis 

      Muñoz Ortiz, Alberto; Vilares, David (2023)
      [Abstract] This paper introduces the LyS A Coruña proposal for the Guarani-Spanish Code Switching Analysis task at IberLEF2023. The shared task proposes to analyze Guarani-Spanish code-switched texts, focusing on language ...