Optimal rank reduction for linear context-free rewriting systems with fan-out two

  • Authors:
  • Benot Sagot;Giorgio Satta

  • Affiliations:
  • INRIA & Universitéé Paris, Le Chesnay, France;University of Padua, Italy

  • Venue:
  • ACL '10 Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems (LCFRSs) are a grammar formalism capable of modeling discontinuous phrases. Many parsing applications use LCFRSs where the fan-out (a measure of the discontinuity of phrases) does not exceed 2. We present an efficient algorithm for optimal reduction of the length of production right-hand side in LCFRSs with fan-out at most 2. This results in asymptotical running time improvement for known parsing algorithms for this class.