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Dependency parsing

deh-PEN-den-see PAR-sing

/dɪˈpɛndənsi ˈpɑːrsɪŋ/

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dependencyparsing

Dictionary meaning

A syntactic analysis technique in NLP that identifies grammatical dependencies between words in a sentence, representing the sentence as a directed graph where edges show the syntactic relationship between a head word and its dependents.

Examples

  • Dependency parsing reveals that in 'the cat sat on the mat', 'sat' is the root and 'cat' is its subject.
  • Machine translation systems use dependency parsing to handle word order differences across languages.

Synonyms: syntactic parsing, grammatical dependency analysis

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