@inproceedings{ellis-etal-1993-new,
title = "A New Transformation into Deterministically Parsable Form for Natural Language Grammars",
author = "Ellis, Nigel R. and
Garigliano, Roberto and
Morgan, Richard G.",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Parsing Technologies",
month = aug # " 10-13",
year = "1993",
address = "Tilburg, Netherlands and Durbuy, Belgium",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/1993.iwpt-1.7",
pages = "61--72",
abstract = "Marcus demonstrated that it was possible to construct a deterministic grammar/interpreter for a subset of natural language [Marcus, 1980]. Although his work with PARSIFAL pioneered the field of deterministic natural language parsing, his method has several drawbacks: {\mbox{$\bullet$}} The rules and actions in the grammar / interpreter are so embedded that it is difficult to distinguish between them. {\mbox{$\bullet$}} The grammar / interpreter is very difficult to construct (the small grammar shown in [Marcus, 1980] took about four months to construct). {\mbox{$\bullet$}} The grammar is very difficult to maintain, as a small change may have several side effects. This paper outlines a set of structure transformations for converting a non-deterministic grammar into deterministic form. The original grammar is written in a context free form; this is then transformed to resolve ambiguities.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T A New Transformation into Deterministically Parsable Form for Natural Language Grammars
%A Ellis, Nigel R.
%A Garigliano, Roberto
%A Morgan, Richard G.
%S Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Parsing Technologies
%D 1993
%8 aug" 10 13"
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Tilburg, Netherlands and Durbuy, Belgium
%F ellis-etal-1993-new
%X Marcus demonstrated that it was possible to construct a deterministic grammar/interpreter for a subset of natural language [Marcus, 1980]. Although his work with PARSIFAL pioneered the field of deterministic natural language parsing, his method has several drawbacks: $\bullet$ The rules and actions in the grammar / interpreter are so embedded that it is difficult to distinguish between them. $\bullet$ The grammar / interpreter is very difficult to construct (the small grammar shown in [Marcus, 1980] took about four months to construct). $\bullet$ The grammar is very difficult to maintain, as a small change may have several side effects. This paper outlines a set of structure transformations for converting a non-deterministic grammar into deterministic form. The original grammar is written in a context free form; this is then transformed to resolve ambiguities.
%U https://aclanthology.org/1993.iwpt-1.7
%P 61-72
Markdown (Informal)
[A New Transformation into Deterministically Parsable Form for Natural Language Grammars](https://aclanthology.org/1993.iwpt-1.7) (Ellis et al., IWPT 1993)
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