Parsing incomplete sentences

  • Authors:
  • Bernard Lang

  • Affiliations:
  • INRIA, Le Chesnay, France

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

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Abstract

An efficient context-free parsing algorithm is presented that can parse sentences with unknown parts of unknown length. It produces in finite form all possible parses (often infinite in number) that could account for the missing parts. The algorithm is a variation on the construction due to Earley. However, its presentation is such that it can readily be adapted to any chart parsing schema (top-down, bottom-up, etc...).