Calculating the probability of a partial parse of a sentence

  • Authors:
  • Fred Kochman;Joseph Kupin

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • HLT '91 Proceedings of the workshop on Speech and Natural Language
  • Year:
  • 1991

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Abstract

A standard problem in parsing algorithms is the organization of branched searches to deal with ambiguous sentences. We discuss shift-reduce parsing of stochastic context-free grammars and show how to construct a probabilistic score for ranking competing parse hypotheses. The score we use is the likelihood that the collection of subtrees can be completed into a full parse tree by means of the steps the parser is constrained to follow.