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Advances in Probabilistic and Other Parsing Technologies

Part of the book series: Text, Speech and Language Technology (TLTB, volume 16)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. New Parsing Technologies

    • Bunt Harry, Nijholt Anton
    Pages 1-12
  3. Encoding Frequency Information in Lexicalized Grammars

    • John Carroll, David Weir
    Pages 13-28
  4. Probabilistic Feature Grammars

    • Joshua Goodman
    Pages 63-84
  5. Probabilistic GLR Parsing

    • Kentaro Inui, Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Hozumi Tanaka, Takenobu Tokunaga
    Pages 85-104
  6. Probabilistic Parsing Using Left Corner Language Models

    • Christopher D. Manning, Bob Carpenter
    Pages 105-124
  7. A New Parsing Method Using a Global Association Table

    • Juntae Yoon, Seonho Kim, Mansuk Song
    Pages 125-139
  8. Towards a Reduced Commitment, D-Theory Style Tag Parser

    • John Chen, K. Vijay-Shanker
    Pages 141-159
  9. Parsing by Successive Approximation

    • Helmut Schmid
    Pages 243-261
  10. Back Matter

    Pages 263-269

About this book

Parsing technology is concerned with finding syntactic structure in language. In parsing we have to deal with incomplete and not necessarily accurate formal descriptions of natural languages. Robustness and efficiency are among the main issuesin parsing. Corpora can be used to obtain frequency information about language use. This allows probabilistic parsing, an approach that aims at both robustness and efficiency increase. Approximation techniques, to be applied at the level of language description, parsing strategy, and syntactic representation, have the same objective. Approximation at the level of syntactic representation is also known as underspecification, a traditional technique to deal with syntactic ambiguity.
In this book new parsing technologies are collected that aim at attacking the problems of robustness and efficiency by exactly these techniques: the design of probabilistic grammars and efficient probabilistic parsing algorithms, approximation techniques applied to grammars and parsers to increase parsing efficiency, and techniques for underspecification and the integration of semantic information in the syntactic analysis to deal with massive ambiguity.
The book gives a state-of-the-art overview of current research and development in parsing technologies. In its chapters we see how probabilistic methods have entered the toolbox of computational linguistics in order to be applied in both parsing theory and parsing practice. The book is both a unique reference for researchers and an introduction to the field for interested graduate students.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Tilburg University, The Netherlands

    Harry Bunt

  • University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Anton Nijholt

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