  This paper builds off recent work from Kiperwasser & Goldberg (2016) using
neural attention in a simple graph-based dependency parser. We use a larger but
more thoroughly regularized parser than other recent BiLSTM-based approaches,
with biaffine classifiers to predict arcs and labels. Our parser gets state of
the art or near state of the art performance on standard treebanks for six
different languages, achieving 95.7% UAS and 94.1% LAS on the most popular
English PTB dataset. This makes it the highest-performing graph-based parser on
this benchmark---outperforming Kiperwasser Goldberg (2016) by 1.8% and
2.2%---and comparable to the highest performing transition-based parser
(Kuncoro et al., 2016), which achieves 95.8% UAS and 94.6% LAS. We also show
which hyperparameter choices had a significant effect on parsing accuracy,
allowing us to achieve large gains over other graph-based approaches.

Computation and Language;Neural and Evolutionary Computing