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Deterministic shift-reduce parsing for unification-based grammars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2010

TAKASHI NINOMIYA ,
TAKUYA MATSUZAKI ,
NOBUYUKI SHIMIZU  and
HIROSHI NAKAGAWA
TAKASHI NINOMIYA
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ehime University, 3 Bunkyo-cho, Matsuyama, Ehime 790-8577, Japan e-mail: ninomiya@cs.ehime-u.ac.jp
TAKUYA MATSUZAKI
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan e-mail: matuzaki@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
NOBUYUKI SHIMIZU
Affiliation:
Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan e-mail: shimizu@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp, n3@dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
HIROSHI NAKAGAWA
Affiliation:
Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan e-mail: shimizu@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp, n3@dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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Abstract

Many parsing techniques assume the use of a packed parse forest to enable efficient and accurate parsing. However, they suffer from an inherent problem that derives from the restriction of locality in the packed parse forest. Deterministic parsing is one solution that can achieve simple and fast parsing without the mechanisms of the packed parse forest by accurately choosing search paths. We propose new deterministic shift-reduce parsing and its variants for unification-based grammars. Deterministic parsing cannot simply be applied to unification-based grammar parsing, which often fails because of its hard constraints. Therefore, this is developed by using default unification, which almost always succeeds in unification by overwriting inconsistent constraints in grammars.

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Natural Language Engineering , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , July 2011 , pp. 331 - 365
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