Abstract
The Penn Treebank (PTB) represents syntactic
structures as graphs due to nonlocal dependencies. This paper proposes a method that approximates PTB graph-structured representations by trees. By our approximation method,
we can reduce nonlocal dependency identification and constituency parsing into single treebased parsing. An experimental result demonstrates that our approximation method with
an off-the-shelf tree-based constituency parser
significantly outperforms the previous methods in nonlocal dependency identification.