Efficiency of Pregroups and the French Noun Phrase

  • Authors:
  • Sylvain Degeilh;Anne Preller

  • Affiliations:
  • LIRMM/CNRS, Montpellier, France;LIRMM/CNRS, Montpellier, France

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Logic, Language and Information
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We study mathematical and algorithmic properties of Lambek's pregroups and illustrate them by the French noun phrase. An algorithm of complexity n3 to solve the reduction problem in an arbitrary free pregroup as well as recognition by a pregroup grammar is presented. This algorithm is then specified to run in linear time. A sufficient condition for a language fragment that makes the linear algorithm complete is given.