Parsing Non-Immediate Dominance Relations

Tilman Becker, Owen Rambow


Abstract
We present a new technique for parsing grammar formalisms that express non-immediate dominance relations by ‘dominance-links’. Dominance links have been introduced in various formalisms such as extensions to CFG and TAG in order to capture long-distance dependencies in free-word order languages (Becker et al., 1991; Rambow, 1994). We show how the addition of ‘link counters’ to standard parsing algorithms such as CKY- and Earley-based methods for TAG results in a polynomial time complexity algorithm for parsing lexicalized V-TAG, a multi-component version of TAGs defined in (Rambow, 1994). A variant of this method has previously been applied to context-free grammar based formalisms such as UVG-DL.
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1995.iwpt-1.6
Volume:
Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies
Month:
September 20-24
Year:
1995
Address:
Prague and Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
Editors:
Eva Hajicova, Bernard Lang, Robert Berwick, Harry Bunt, Bob Carpenter, Ken Church, Aravind Joshi, Ronald Kaplan, Martin Kay, Makoto Nagao, Anton Nijholt, Mark Steedman, Henry Thompson, Masaru Tomita, K. Vijay-Shanker, Yorick Wilks, Kent Wittenburg
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IWPT | WS
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SIGPARSE
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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26–33
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Tilman Becker and Owen Rambow. 1995. Parsing Non-Immediate Dominance Relations. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies, pages 26–33, Prague and Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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