Why does a statistical parser degrade when processing out-of-domain text?

💡 Explanation

A statistical parser's accuracy degrades when processing out-of-domain text because its model, trained on a specific domain, experiences domain adaptation reducing parsing accuracy. This occurs because the statistical distributions of words and syntactic structures differ, therefore, the parser's probabilities become skewed, rather than remaining accurate.

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