Dependency Parser for Bengali: the JU System at ICON 2009

This paper reports about our work in the ICON 2009 NLP TOOLS CONTEST: Parsing. We submitted two runs for Ben-gali. A statistical CRF based model fol-lowed by a rule-based post-processing technique has been used. The system has been trained on the NLP TOOLS CON-TEST: ICON 2009 datasets. The system demonstrated an unlabeled attachment score (UAS) of 74.09%, labeled attach-ment score (LAS) of 53.90 % and labeled accuracy score (LS) of 61.71 % respec-tively.