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An experimentation environment for data-driven dependency parsing is maintained for NLPL under the coordination of Uppsala University (UU).
 
An experimentation environment for data-driven dependency parsing is maintained for NLPL under the coordination of Uppsala University (UU).
 
Initially, the software and data are commissioned on the Norwegian Abel supercluster.
 
Initially, the software and data are commissioned on the Norwegian Abel supercluster.
The Uppsala Parser is publicly available at https://github.com/UppsalaNLP/uuparser.
 
Note that the version installed here may exhibit some slight differences, designed to improve ease of use.
 
  
= Data =
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= Preprocessing Tools =
  
For parsing experiments data from the Univeral Dependencies (UD) project, for a high number of languages. We provide the data in version 2.0, which was also used for the CoNLL shared task 2017, and version 2.1.
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* [http://wiki.nlpl.eu/index.php/Parsing/repp REPP Tokenizer (English and Norwegian)]
  
All data is available on Abel at <code>/projects/nlpl/data/parsing/universal_dependencies</code>
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Additionally, a variety of tools for sentence splitting, tokenization, lemmatization, et al.
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are available through the NLPL installations of the
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[http://nltk.org Natural Language Processing Toolkit (NLTK)] and the
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[https://spacy.io spaCy: Natural Language Processing in Python] tools.
  
== UD version 2.0 ==
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= Parsing Systems =
  
folders:<br>
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* [http://wiki.nlpl.eu/index.php/Parsing/uuparser The Uppsala Parser]
<code>/projects/nlpl/data/parsing/universal_dependencies/ud-treebanks-v2.0-conll2017</code><br>
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* [http://wiki.nlpl.eu/index.php/Parsing/udpipe UDPipe]
<code>/projects/nlpl/data/parsing/universal_dependencies/ud-test-v2.0-conll2017</code>
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* [http://wiki.nlpl.eu/index.php/Parsing/dozat Stanford Graph-Based Parser by Tim Dozat]
  
info:<br>
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= Training and Evaluation Data =
Version 2.0 treebanks, archived at http://hdl.handle.net/11234/1-1983. <br>
 
70 treebanks, 50 languages, released March 1, 2017.<br>
 
Test data 2.0 are archived at http://hdl.handle.net/11234/1-2184. <br>
 
81 treebanks, 49 languages, released May 18, 2017.
 
  
Release 2.0 has test data released separately from the test data,
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* [http://wiki.nlpl.eu/index.php/Parsing/ud Universal Dependencies v2.0–2.3]
which is reflected in our folder structure. This data was released for
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* [http://wiki.nlpl.eu/index.php/Parsing/sdp Semantic Dependency Parsing]
the CoNLL 2017 shared task.
 
 
 
== UD version 2.1 ==
 
 
 
folders:<br>
 
<code>/projects/nlpl/data/parsing/universal_dependencies/ud-treebanks-v2.1</code>
 
 
 
info:<br>
 
Version 2.1 treebanks are available at http://hdl.handle.net/11234/1-2515. <br>
 
102 treebanks, 60 languages, released November 15, 2017.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
= Using the Uppsala Parser =
 
 
 
* Log into Abel
 
* Activate the NLPL module repository:
 
module use -a /projects/nlpl/software/modulefiles/
 
* Load the most recent version of the uuparser module:
 
module load uuparser
 
 
 
== Training a parsing model ==
 
 
 
To train a set of parsing models on treebanks from Universal Dependencies (v2.1):
 
 
 
uuparser --include [languages to include denoted by their ISO id] --outdir my-output-directory
 
 
 
If you want to quickly test the parser is correctly loaded and running without waiting for the full training procedure, add the <code>--mini</code> flag.
 
For example:
 
 
 
uuparser --include "sv en ru" --outdir ~/experiments --mini
 
 
 
will train separate models for UD Swedish, English and Russian and store the results in the <code>experiments</code> folder in your home directory. The <code>--mini</code> flag tells the parser to train on just the first 150 sentences of each language, and evaluate on the first 100 sentences of development data. It also tells the parser to train for just 3 epochs, as opposed to the default 30 (see more below under "Options")
 
 
 
Model selection is included in the training process by default; that is, at each epoch the current model is evaluated on the UD dev data, and at the end of training the best performing model for each language is selected.
 
 
 
== Predicting with a pre-trained parsing model ==
 
 
 
To predict on UD test data with the models trained above:
 
 
 
uuparser --include "sv en ru" --outdir ~/experiments --predict
 
 
 
You may again include the <code>--mini</code> flag if you prefer to test on a subset of 50 test sentences.
 
 
 
== Options ==
 
 
 
The parser has numerous options to allow you to fine-control its behaviour. For a full list, type
 
 
 
uuparser --help | less
 
 
 
We recommend you set the <code>--dynet-mem</code> option to a larger number when training on larger treebanks. Commonly used values are 5000 and 10000 (in MB). Dynet is the neural network library on which the parser is built.
 
 
 
Note that due to random initialization and other non-deterministic elements in the training process, you will not obtain the same results even when training twice under exactly the same circumstances (e.g. languages, number of epochs etc.). To ensure identical results between two runs, we recommend setting the <code>--dynet-seed</code> option to the same value both times (e.g. <code> --dynet-seed 123456789</code>) and adding the <code>--use-default-seed</code> flag. This ensures that Python's random number generator and Dynet both produce the same sequence of random numbers.
 
 
 
== Training a multilingual parsing model ==
 
 
 
Our parser supports multilingual parsing, that is a single parsing model for one or more languages. To train a ''multilingual'' model for the three languages in the examples above, we simply add the <code>--multilingual</code> flag when training
 
 
 
uuparser --include "sv en ru" --outdir ~/experiments --multiling --dynet-mem 5000
 
 
 
In this case, instead of creating three separate models in the language-specific subdirectories created within ~/experiments, a single model will be created directly in this folder. Predicting on test data is then as easy as:
 
 
 
uuparser --include "sv en ru" --outdir ~/experiments --multiling --dynet-mem 5000 --predict
 
 
 
Note that if you want to have different output directories for training and predicting, the <code>--modeldir</code> option can be specified when predicting to tell the parser where the pre-trained model can be found.
 
 
 
'''Contact:'''
 
Aaron Smith, Uppsala University, firstname.lastname@lingfil.uu.se
 

Revision as of 17:42, 30 January 2019

Background

An experimentation environment for data-driven dependency parsing is maintained for NLPL under the coordination of Uppsala University (UU). Initially, the software and data are commissioned on the Norwegian Abel supercluster.

Preprocessing Tools

Additionally, a variety of tools for sentence splitting, tokenization, lemmatization, et al. are available through the NLPL installations of the Natural Language Processing Toolkit (NLTK) and the spaCy: Natural Language Processing in Python tools.

Parsing Systems

Training and Evaluation Data