Dependency management in modern software development poses many challenges for developers who wish to stay up date with the latest features and fixes whilst ensuring backwards compatibility. Project maintainers have opted varied, sometimes conflicting, approaches maintaining their dependencies. Opting unsuitable can introduce bugs vulnerabilities into project, breaking changes, cause extraneous...

While dependency parsers reach very high overall accuracy, some dependency relations are much harder than others. In particular, dependency parsers perform poorly in coordination construction (i.e., correctly attaching the conj relation). We extend a state-of-the-art dependency parser with conjunction-specific features, focusing on the similarity between the conjuncts head words. Training the e...