Bisimulation minimisation for weighted tree automata

  • Authors:
  • Johanna Högberg;Andreas Maletti;Jonathan May

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden;Faculty of Computer Science, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany;Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Marina Del Rey, CA

  • Venue:
  • DLT'07 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Developments in language theory
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We generalise existing forward and backward bisimulation minimisation algorithms for tree automata to weighted tree automata. The obtained algorithms work for all semirings and retain the time complexity of their unweighted variants for all additively cancellative semirings. On all other semirings the time complexity is slightly higher (linear instead of logarithmic in the number of states). We discuss implementations of these algorithms on a typical task in natural language processing.