Author : Laura Kallmeyer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642148468
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)
Book Synopsis Parsing Beyond Context-Free Grammars by : Laura Kallmeyer
Download or read book Parsing Beyond Context-Free Grammars written by Laura Kallmeyer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given that context-free grammars (CFG) cannot adequately describe natural languages, grammar formalisms beyond CFG that are still computationally tractable are of central interest for computational linguists. This book provides an extensive overview of the formal language landscape between CFG and PTIME, moving from Tree Adjoining Grammars to Multiple Context-Free Grammars and then to Range Concatenation Grammars while explaining available parsing techniques for these formalisms. Although familiarity with the basic notions of parsing and formal languages is helpful when reading this book, it is not a strict requirement. The presentation is supported with many illustrations and examples relating to the different formalisms and algorithms, and chapter summaries, problems and solutions. The book will be useful for students and researchers in computational linguistics and in formal language theory.