LR recursive transition networks for Earley and Tomita parsing

  • Authors:
  • Mark Perlin

  • Affiliations:
  • Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Venue:
  • ACL '91 Proceedings of the 29th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 1991

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Abstract

Efficient syntactic and semantic parsing for ambiguous context-free languages are generally characterized as complex, specialized, highly formal algorithms. In fact, they are readily constructed from straightforward recursive transition networks (RTNs). In this paper, we introduce LR-RTNs, and then computationally motivate a uniform progression from basic LR parsing, to Earley's (chart) parsing, concluding with Tomita's parser. These apparently disparate algorithms are unified into a single implementation, which was used to automatically generate all the figures in this paper.