addDependencyDetails

Add grammatical dependency details to documents

Syntax

updatedDocuments = addDependencyDetails(documents)

Description

Use addDependencyDetails to add grammatical dependency details to documents.

The function supports English, Japanese, German, and Korean text.

updatedDocuments = addDependencyDetails(documents) adds grammatical dependency details to documents and updates the token details. To get the dependency details from updatedDocuments, use tokenDetails.

Examples

Add Grammatical Dependency Details to Document

Create a tokenized document object containing a single sentence.

str = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.";
document = tokenizedDocument(str)

document = 
  tokenizedDocument:

   10 tokens: The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog .

Add grammatical dependency details to the document. The addDependencyDetails function requires the Text Analytics Toolbox™ Model for UDify Data support package. If you do not have this support package installed, then the function provides a download link.

document = addDependencyDetails(document);

View the token details using the tokenDetails function. The Head and Dependency variables of the table form a tree structure of the dependency details. For example, because the word "lazy" modifies the word "dog" in this sentence, the token details table lists the token number of "dog" as the head of the token "lazy".

details = tokenDetails(document)

details=10×8 table
     Token      DocumentNumber    SentenceNumber    LineNumber       Type        Language    Head    Dependency
    ________    ______________    ______________    __________    ___________    ________    ____    __________

    "The"             1                 1               1         letters           en        4        det     
    "quick"           1                 1               1         letters           en        4        amod    
    "brown"           1                 1               1         letters           en        4        amod    
    "fox"             1                 1               1         letters           en        5        nsubj   
    "jumped"          1                 1               1         letters           en        0        root    
    "over"            1                 1               1         letters           en        9        case    
    "the"             1                 1               1         letters           en        9        det     
    "lazy"            1                 1               1         letters           en        9        amod    
    "dog"             1                 1               1         letters           en        5        obl     
    "."               1                 1               1         punctuation       en        5        punct   

Visualize the dependency details in a sentence chart. Solid lines indicate dependencies and dotted lines indicate subtree labels.

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sentenceChart(document)

Input Arguments

documents — Input documents

tokenizedDocument array

Input documents, specified as a tokenizedDocument array.

Output Arguments

updatedDocuments — Updated documents

tokenizedDocument array

Updated documents, returned as a tokenizedDocument array. To get the token details from updatedDocuments, use tokenDetails.

Algorithms

Grammatical Dependency Parsing

The addDependencyDetails function adds grammatical dependency tags to the table returned by the tokenDetails function. The function tags each token with a categorical tag defined by Universal Dependencies. [1]

The dependency types listed here are only a subset. For a complete list of dependency types, including subtypes, see [1].

• acl — clausal modifier of noun (adnominal clause)

• advcl — adverbial clause modifier

• advmod — adverbial modifier

• amod — adjectival modifier

• appos — appositional modifier

• aux — auxiliary

• case — case marking

• cc — coordinating conjunction

• ccomp — clausal complement

• clf — classifier

• compound — compound

• conj — conjunct

• cop — copula

• csubj — clausal subject

• dep — unspecified dependency

• det — determiner

• discourse — discourse element

• dislocated — dislocated elements

• expl — expletive

• fixed — fixed multiword expression

• flat — flat multiword expression

• goeswith — goes with

• iobj — indirect object

• list — list

• mark — marker

• nmod — nominal modifier

• nsubj — nominal subject

• nummod — numeric modifier

• obj — object

• obl — oblique nominal

• orphan — orphan

• parataxis — parataxis

• punct — punctuation

• reparandum — overridden disfluency

• root — root

• vocative — vocative

• xcomp — open clausal complement

References

[1] Universal Dependency Relations https://universaldependencies.org/u/dep/index.html.

Version History

Introduced in R2022b