Efficient parsing with linear context-free rewriting systems

  • Authors:
  • Andreas van Cranenburgh

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Amsterdam Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Postbus, LT The Hague, the Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • EACL '12 Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Previous work on treebank parsing with discontinuous constituents using Linear Context-Free Rewriting systems (LCFRS) has been limited to sentences of up to 30 words, for reasons of computational complexity. There have been some results on binarizing an LCFRS in a manner that minimizes parsing complexity, but the present work shows that parsing long sentences with such an optimally binarized grammar remains infeasible. Instead, we introduce a technique which removes this length restriction, while maintaining a respectable accuracy. The resulting parser has been applied to a discontinuous treebank with favorable results.