Systemic classification and its efficiency

  • Authors:
  • Chris Brew

  • Affiliations:
  • Human Communication Research Centre

  • Venue:
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 1991

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Abstract

This paper examines the problem of classifying linguistic objects on the basis of information encoded in the system network formalism developed by Halliday. It is shown that this problem is NP-hard, and a restriction to the formalism, which renders the classification problem soluble in polynomial time, is suggested. An algorithm for the unrestricted classification problem, which separates a potentially expensive second stage from a more tractable first stage, is then presented.