Guided Earley Parsing

Pierre Boullier


Abstract
In this paper, we present a method which may speed up Earley parsers in practice. A first pass called a guiding parser builds an intermediate structure called a guide which is used by a second pass, an Earley parser, called a guided parser whose Predictor phase is slightly modified in such a way that it selects an initial item only if this item is in the guide. This approach is validated by practical experiments preformed on a large test set with an English context-free grammar.
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W03-3005
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Parsing Technologies
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April
Year:
2003
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Nancy, France
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IWPT
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SIGPARSE
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43–54
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Pierre Boullier. 2003. Guided Earley Parsing. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Parsing Technologies, pages 43–54, Nancy, France.
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