Practical parsing of generalized phrase structure grammars

  • Authors:
  • Anthony J. Fisher

  • Affiliations:
  • The University of York, Heslington, York, U.K.

  • Venue:
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

An efficient algorithm is described for parsing a dialect of generalized phrase structure grammar (GPSG). A practical parsing system, based on the algorithm, is presented. The dialect of GPSG which the parsing system accepts is smaller, but considerably "purer" (closer to the original definition of GPSG) and mathematically "cleaner" than that which is accepted by other practical parsing systems. In particular, the parsing system correctly implements feature co-occurrence restrictions, subject only to the restriction that the FCR set can be expressed in clausal form as a set of Horn clauses.