Unidirectional derivation semantics for synchronous tree-adjoining grammars

  • Authors:
  • Matthias Büchse;Andreas Maletti;Heiko Vogler

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany;Institute for Natural Language Processing, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany;Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

  • Venue:
  • DLT'12 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Developments in Language Theory
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Synchronous tree-adjoining grammars have been given two types of semantics: one based on bimorphisms and one based on synchronous derivations, in both of which the input and output trees are constructed synchronously. We introduce a third type of semantics that is based on unidirectional derivations. It derives output trees based on a given input tree and thus marks a first step towards conditional probability distributions. We prove that the unidirectional semantics coincides with the bimorphism-based semantics with the help of a strong correspondence to linear and nondeleting extended top-down tree transducers with explicit substitution. In addition, we show that stateful synchronous tree-adjoining grammars admit a normal form in which only adjunction is used. This contrasts the situation encountered in the stateless case.