Bidirectional parsing of lexicalized tree adjoining grammars

  • Authors:
  • Alberto Lavelli;Giorgio Satta

  • Affiliations:
  • Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Povo TN, Italy;Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Povo TN, Italy

  • Venue:
  • EACL '91 Proceedings of the fifth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 1991

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Abstract

In this paper a bidirectional parser for Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars will be presented. The algorithm takes advantage of a peculiar characteristic of Lexicalized TAGs, i.e. that each elementary tree is associated with a lexical item, called its anchor. The algorithm employs a mixed strategy: it works bottom-up from the lexical anchors and then expands (partial) analyses making top-down predictions. Even if such an algorithm does not improve the worst-case time bounds of already known TAGs parsing methods, it could be relevant from the perspective of linguistic information processing, because it employs lexical information in a more direct way.