lexicalized parser vs dependency parser [duplicate]

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I am new to NLP concepts , i am little bit confused with the concepts of lexicalized parser and dependency parser. Are they the same thing or if not in what ways they differ. kindly help to understand. I am using Stanford parser java package. Thanks

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Lexicalized parsing aims at building a tree structure from a set of tokens. So a correctly parsed sentence could for example return two sub phrases, so the syntactical structure of the sentence is identified.

Dependency parsing however, aims at finding relations between the words. For example, consider the sentence "I have never ever seen this before". A dependency parser could find a (directed) auxiliary relation from "have" to "seen". So a dependency parsing indicates the (grammatical) relations between

This is a rather informal explanation but maybe you can make some use of it.