GPSG parsing, bidirectional charts, and connection graphs

  • Authors:
  • Laurent Devos;Michael Gilloux

  • Affiliations:
  • Centre National d'Études des Télécommunications, Lannion, France;Centre National d'Études des Télécommunications, Lannion, France

  • Venue:
  • COLING '90 Proceedings of the 13th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 1990

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Abstract

This paper describes a tractable method for parsing GPSG grammars without altering the modularity and expressiveness of this formalism. The proposed method is based on a constraint propagation mechanism which reduces the number of unnecessary structures built at parse time through the early detection of inadmissible local trees. The propagation of constraints is rendered efficient by indexing constraints and categories in a connection graph and by using a bidirectional chart parser together with a bottom-up strategy centered around head constituents.