In a similar vein, Swanson and Gordon (2006) reported that parse tree path features extracted from a rule-based dependency parser are much less reliable than those from a modern constituent parser.
we recently carried out a detailed comparison (Johansson and Nugues, 2008b) between constituent-based and dependency-based SRL systems for FrameNet, in which the results of the two types of systems where almost equivalent when using modern statistical dependency parsers.