@inproceedings{lavie-rose-2000-optimal,
    title = "Optimal Ambiguity Packing in Context-free Parsers with Interleaved Unification",
    author = "Lavie, Alon  and
      Ros{\'e}, Carolyn Penstein",
    editor = "Lavelli, Alberto  and
      Carroll, John  and
      Berwick, Robert C.  and
      Bunt, Harry C.  and
      Carpenter, Bob  and
      Carroll, John  and
      Church, Ken  and
      Johnson, Mark  and
      Joshi, Aravind  and
      Kaplan, Ronald  and
      Kay, Martin  and
      Lang, Bernard  and
      Lavie, Alon  and
      Nijholt, Anton  and
      Samuelsson, Christer  and
      Steedman, Mark  and
      Stock, Oliviero  and
      Tanaka, Hozumi  and
      Tomita, Masaru  and
      Uszkoreit, Hans  and
      Vijay-Shanker, K.  and
      Weir, David  and
      Wiren, Mats",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies",
    month = feb # " 23-25",
    year = "2000",
    address = "Trento, Italy",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2000.iwpt-1.16/",
    pages = "147--158",
    abstract = "Ambiguity packing is a well known technique for enhancing the efficiency of context-free parsers. However, in the case of unification-augmented context-free parsers where parsing is interleaved with feature unification, the propagation of feature structures imposes difficulties on the ability of the parser to effectively perform ambiguity packing. We demonstrate that a clever heuristic for prioritizing the execution order of grammar rules and parsing actions can achieve a high level of ambiguity packing that is provably optimal. We present empirical evaluations of the proposed technique, performed with both a Generalized LR parser and a chart parser, that demonstrate its effectiveness."
}