📄 Stanza: A Python Natural Language Processing Toolkit for Many Human Languages

What it is about

Stanza is a Python toolkit whose pipeline is neural from raw text to dependencies, for 66 languages. It has a combined tokenizer and sentence splitter, multi-word-token expansion (a frequency lexicon with a sequence-to-sequence model), a POS and feature tagger that conditions XPOS and features on UPOS, a lemmatizer (dictionary plus neural), and a Bi-LSTM deep biaffine parser. The parser is extended with two predicted features, the linear order of two words and their typical distance. Models are trained on UD v2.5 and evaluated on 112 datasets; the paper reports the macro average over 100 treebanks and compares with UDPipe and spaCy on five major languages, where Stanza is best on most scores. It is slower than spaCy and is competitive with toolkits of similar accuracy, especially on GPU.

For Mova

• I1. Order and distance features for en: predict, for each candidate arc, whether the head precedes the dependent and the typical distance between them, and add these as features in en/src/parse.rs; measure UAS and LAS on EWT test against the current 84.27 and 80.24.
• I2. Lexicon-first multi-word expansion: check how en/src/tok.rs handles contractions and clitics (don't, can't, gonna) against EWT test tokens, and count the forms the lexicon misses; the paper uses a lexicon with a model as fallback.
• I3. Macro report: add a macro average over all mova dialect banks to en ud-eval, as the paper reports, so that a single gain on EWT cannot hide a loss elsewhere; test sets only where licence allows.

The code is en/src/tok.rs, en/src/parse.rs and en/src/ud.rs. The chapters are languages/en/07-punctuation-capitals-numbers.md (tokenization) and 19-lexicon-mwe-register.md (multi-word expressions). The paper's lesson for Mova is the reporting: a macro average over many treebanks and a per-stage table, not one headline number.

🏛️ Institutions

🎓Stanford UniversityStanford · United States248 works · 214,804 citations

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Cite as Peng Qi, Yuhao Zhang, Yuhui Zhang, Jason Bolton and Christopher D. Manning. 2020. Stanza: A Python Natural Language Processing Toolkit for Many Human Languages. Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations.

The paper itself, not this card. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. DOI 10.18653/v1/2020.acl-demos.14 · arXiv 2003.07082

@inproceedings{qi2020stanza,
  title = {{Stanza: A Python Natural Language Processing Toolkit for Many Human Languages}},
  author = {Peng Qi, Yuhao Zhang, Yuhui Zhang, Jason Bolton and Christopher D. Manning},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations},
  year = {2020},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2020.acl-demos.14},
  eprint = {2003.07082},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.acl-demos.14}
}

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