| Challenge: | a number of differences have emerged between classical and modern constituency parsing approaches . structural components like grammars and feature-rich lexicons are becoming less central . recurrent neural networks have gained traction as a powerful and general purpose tool for representation . |
| Approach: | They propose a model that implicitly learns to encode much of the same information as grammars and lexicons in the past. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art models under similar conditions. |
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