The Parallel Expert Parser (PEP): a thoroughly revised descendant of the word Expert Parser (WEP)

  • Authors:
  • M. Devos;G. Adriaens;Y. D. Willems

  • Affiliations:
  • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;Siemens NLP Research & Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • COLING '88 Proceedings of the 12th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

In this paper we present PEP (the Parallel Expert Parser, Devos 1987), a radically revised descendant of WEP (the word Expert Parser, Small 1980). WEP's idea of linguistic entities as interacting processes has been retained, but its adherence to the word as the only entity has been rejected. Experts exist at different levels, communicate through rigidly defined protocols and are now fully designed to run in parallel. A prototype of PEP is implemented in Flat Concurrent Prolog and runs in a Logix environment.