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Efficient Processing with Constraint-Logic Grammars Using Grammar Compilation

Guido Minnen

This book investigates a number of practical problems in processing of written human language. More specifically, we propose a number techniques for automatic analysis and production of language using knowledge about the structure and meaning of human language in the form of constraint-logic grammars. The techniques proposed are all based on automatic grammar adaptation or compilation rather than a modification of the processing algorithm used. As such they allow the grammar writer to abstract over processing details and in many cases enable more efficient processing.

Guido Minnen is currently a staff scientist at the Human Interface Laboratory within Motorola Labs.

Contents

  • Acknowledgements
    • 1 Introduction
    • 2 Processing with Constraint-logic Grammars
      • 2.1 Constraint-logic Grammars
      • 2.2 Processing with Constraint-logic Grammars
      • 2.3 Summary
  • I Syntactic Under-determination
    • 3 Top-down Control and Syntactic Under-determination
      • 3.1 Motivation
      • 3.2 Adornments, Degrees of Non-determinism and Literal Arrangement
      • 3.3 Literal Rearrangement
      • 3.4 Limitations
      • 3.5 Related Work
      • 3.6 Summary
    • 4 Top-down Control and Recursion on Structure
      • 4.1 Motivation
      • 4.2 Argument Sequences
      • 4.3 Argument Sequences for Controlling Recursion on Structure
      • 4.4 Building Recursion Reversal
      • 4.5 Limitations
      • 4.6 Related Work
      • 4.7 Summary
    • 5 Bottom-up Control using Magic
      • 5.1 Motivation
      • 5.2 Magic Transformation and Semi-naive Control
      • 5.3 Refining Magic Transformation for Filter Improvement
      • 5.4 Selective Magic Parsing
      • 5.5 Related Work
      • 5.6 Summary
  • II Lexical Under-determination
    • 6 Lexical Rules as Systematic Covariation in Lexical Entries
      • 6.1 Motivation
      • 6.2 Lexical Rules as Systemic Covariation in Lexical Entries
      • 6.3 Limitations
      • 6.4 Related Work
      • 6.5 Summary
    • 7 Optimized Covariation Lexica
      • 7.1 Motivation
      • 7.2 Word CLass Specialization of Frame Specification
      • 7.3 Constraint Propagation for Efficient Lexical Lookup
      • 7.4 Efficiency Evaluation
      • 7.5 Limitations
      • 7.6 Related Work
      • 7.7 Summary
    • 8 Conclusion
  • Appendix A: HPSG Signature
  • Appendix B: Argument Sequence Computation
  • Appendix C: Selective Magic Transformation
  • Appendix D: HPSG Linearization Grammar of German
  • Appendix E: Frame Computation
  • References
  • Index

2/1/2001

ISBN (Paperback): 1575863065 (9781575863061)
ISBN (Cloth): 1575863057 (9781575863054)
ISBN (Electronic): 1684000114 (9781684000111)

Subject: Linguistics; Constraint Programming; Logic Programming

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