Abstract
We study the parsing complexity of Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG) in the formalism of Vijay-Shanker and Weir (1994). As our main result, we prove that any parsing algorithm for this formalism will take in the worst case exponential time when the size of the grammar, and not only the length of the input sentence, is included in the analysis. This sets the formalism of Vijay-Shanker and Weir (1994) apart from weakly equivalent formalisms such as Tree Adjoining Grammar, for which parsing can be performed in time polynomial in the combined size of grammar and input sentence. Our results contribute to a refined understanding of the class of mildly context-sensitive grammars, and inform the search for new, mildly context-sensitive versions of CCG.- Anthology ID:
- J18-3004
- Volume:
- Computational Linguistics, Volume 44, Issue 3 - September 2018
- Month:
- September
- Year:
- 2018
- Address:
- Cambridge, MA
- Venue:
- CL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- MIT Press
- Note:
- Pages:
- 447–482
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/J18-3004
- DOI:
- 10.1162/coli_a_00324
- Cite (ACL):
- Marco Kuhlmann, Giorgio Satta, and Peter Jonsson. 2018. On the Complexity of CCG Parsing. Computational Linguistics, 44(3):447–482.
- Cite (Informal):
- On the Complexity of CCG Parsing (Kuhlmann et al., CL 2018)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/improve-issue-templates/J18-3004.pdf