Engel, DonCharniak, EugeneJohnson, Mark2021-04-302021-04-30Donald Engel, Eugene Charniak, and Mark Johnson. 2002. Parsing and disfluency placement. In Proceedings of the ACL-02 conference on Empirical methods in natural language processing - Volume 10 (EMNLP '02). Association for Computational Linguistics, USA, 49–54. DOI:https://doi.org/10.3115/1118693.1118700https://doi.org/10.3115/1118693.1118700http://hdl.handle.net/11603/21410EMNLP '02: Proceedings of the ACL-02 conference on Empirical methods in natural language processing - Volume 10, July 2002 Pages 49–54It has been suggested that some forms of speech disfluencies, most notable interjections and parentheticals, tend to occur disproportionally at major clause boundaries [6] and thus might serve to aid parsers in establishing these boundaries. We have tested a current statistical parser [1] on Switchboard text with and without interjections and parentheticals and found that the parser performed better when not faced with these extra phenomena. This suggest that for current parsers, at least, interjection and parenthetical placement does not help in the parsing process.6 pagesen-USThis item is likely protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. Unless on a Creative Commons license, for uses protected by Copyright Law, contact the copyright holder or the author.Text