Abstract
Much of mathematics, and therefore much of computer science, is built on the notion of sets. In this paper it is argued that in parsing theory it is sometimes convenient to replace sets by a related notion, bunches. The replacement is not so much a matter of principle, but helps to create a more concise theory. Advantages of the bunch concept are illustrated by using it in descriptions of a formal semantics for context-free grammars and of functional parsing algorithms.- Anthology ID:
- 1993.iwpt-1.13
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Parsing Technologies
- Month:
- August 10-13
- Year:
- 1993
- Address:
- Tilburg, Netherlands and Durbuy, Belgium
- Editors:
- Harry Bunt, Robert Berwick, Ken Church, Aravind Joshi, Ronald Kaplan, Martin Kay, Bernard Lang, Makoto Nagao, Anton Nijholt, Mark Steedman, Henry Thompson, Masaru Tomita, K. Vijay-Shanker, Yorick Wilks, Kent Wittenburg
- Venue:
- IWPT
- SIG:
- SIGPARSE
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 135–144
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/1993.iwpt-1.13
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- René Leermakers. 1993. The Use of Bunch Notation in Parsing Theory. In Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Parsing Technologies, pages 135–144, Tilburg, Netherlands and Durbuy, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- The Use of Bunch Notation in Parsing Theory (Leermakers, IWPT 1993)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/teach-a-man-to-fish/1993.iwpt-1.13.pdf