Practical aspects in compiling tabular TAG parsers

A Left Corner Parser for Tree Adjoining Grammars

Tabular parsers can be defined as deduction systems where formulas, called items, are sets of complete or incomplete constituents (Sikkel, 1997; Shieber, Schabes and Pereira, 1995). Formally, given an input string w = a1 . . . an with n ≥ 0 and a grammar G, a parser IP is a tuple (I,H,D) where I is a set of items, H is a set of hypothesis ([ai, i − 1, i] with 1 ≤ i ≤ n) that encodes the input s...

Relating Tabular Parsing Algorithms for Lig and Tag

Tree Adjoining Grammars (TAG) and Linear Indexed Grammars (LIG) are extensions of Context Free Grammars that generate the class of Tree Adjoining Languages. Taking advantage of this property, and providing a method for translating a TAG into a LIG, we define several parsing algorithms for TAG on the basis of their equivalent LIG parsers. We also explore why some practical optimizations for TAG ...

Refining Tabular Parsers for TAGs

Generating XTAG Parsers from Algebraic Specifications

In this paper, a generic system that generates parsers from parsing schemata is applied to the particular case of the XTAG English grammar. In order to be able to generate XTAG parsers, some transformations are made to the grammar, and TAG parsing schemata are extended with feature structure unification support and a simple tree filtering mechanism. The generated implementations allow us to stu...

Bidirectional parsing of TAG without heads

We present a bottom-up bidirectional parser for Tree Adjoining Grammars that is an extension of the parser defined by De Vreught and Honig for Context Free Grammars. Although this parser does not improve the complexity of the parsers defined in the literature, it presents several characteristics that can be of interest for practical parsing of natural languages.