Publikation
Identifying grammar rules for language education with dependency parsing in German
Eleni Metheniti; Pomi Baram Park; Kristina Kolesova; Günter Neumann (Hrsg.)
International Conference on Dependency Lingusitics (Depling-2019), Exploring dependency grammar, semantics and the lexicon, August 27-28, Paris, France, https://syntaxfest.github.io/syntaxfest19/proceedings/papers/paper_19.pdf, 8/2019.
Zusammenfassung
We propose a method of determining the syntactic difficulty of a sentence, using syntactic patterns that identify grammatical rules on dependency parses. We have constructed a novel query language based on constraint-based dependency grammars and a grammar of German rules (relevant to primary school education) with patterns in our language. We annotated these rules with difficulty score and grammatical prerequisites and built a matching algorithm that matches the dependency parse of a sentence in CoNLL-U format with its relevant syntactic patterns. We achieved 96% precision and 95% recall on a manually annotated set of sentences, and our best results on using parses from four parsers are 88% and 84% respectively.