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What is a constituency parsing?

Dividing a sentence into smaller grammatical structures ("constituents").

Dividing a sentence into smaller grammatical structures ("constituents"). A later part of the ML system, such as a natural language understanding model, can parse the constituents more easily than the original sentence. For example, consider the following sentence: My friend adopted two cats. A constituency parser can divide this sentence into the following two constituents: - My friend is a noun phrase. - adopted two cats is a verb phrase. These constituents can be further subdivided into smaller constituents. For example, the verb phrase adopted two cats could be further subdivided into: - adopted is a verb. - two cats is another noun phrase.

Practitioners refer to constituency parsing when building, training, or evaluating machine learning systems. It appears in research papers, product documentation, and technical discussions about AI capabilities and limitations.