Eliminative parsing with graded constraints

  • Authors:
  • Johannes Heinecke;Jürgen Kunze;Wolfgang Menzel;Ingo Schröder

  • Affiliations:
  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany;Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany;Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany;Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • COLING '98 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Natural language parsing is conceived to be a procedure of disambiguation, which successively reduces an initially totally ambiguous structural representation towards a single interpretation. Graded constraints are used as means to express well-formedness conditions of different strength and to decide which partial structures are locally least preferred and, hence, can be deleted. This approach facilitates a higher degree of robustness of the analysis, allows to introduce resource adaptivity into the parsing procedure, and exhibits a high potential for parallelization of the computation.