👉 A dependence weapon is a type of linguistic tool used in computational linguistics and natural language processing to analyze and model the syntactic and semantic relationships between words or phrases within a sentence. It identifies dependencies, which are the grammatical connections between words, such as subject-verb, verb-object, or modifier-noun relationships. By mapping these dependencies, dependence weapons help in understanding sentence structure, parsing, and generating natural language text. This is crucial for tasks like machine translation, information extraction, and question answering, as it enables systems to interpret the meaning and structure of sentences accurately.
