A unification method for disjunctive feature descriptions

  • Authors:
  • Robert T. Kasper

  • Affiliations:
  • USC/Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, CA

  • Venue:
  • ACL '87 Proceedings of the 25th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 1987

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Abstract

Although disjunction has been used in several unification-based grammar formalisms, existing methods of unification have been unsatisfactory for descriptions containing large quantities of disjunction, because they require exponential time. This paper describes a method of unification by successive approximation, resulting in better average performance.