Top-down predictive linking and complex-feature-based formalisms

  • Authors:
  • James Kilbury

  • Affiliations:
  • Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

  • Venue:
  • COLING '96 Proceedings of the 16th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

Automatic compilation of the linking relation employed in certain parsing algorithms for context-free languages is examined. Special problems arise in the extension of these algorithms to the possibly infinite domain of feature structures. A technique is proposed which is designed specifically for left-recursive categories and is based on the generalization of their occurrences in a derivation. Particular attention is drawn to the top-down predictive character of the linking relation and to its significance not only as a filter for increasing the efficiency of syntactic analysis but as a device for the top-down instantiation of information, which then serves as a key to the directed analysis of inflected forms as well as "unknown" or "new" words.