Parsing Graphs with Regular Graph Grammars

Sorcha Gilroy, Adam Lopez, Sebastian Maneth


Abstract
Recently, several datasets have become available which represent natural language phenomena as graphs. Hyperedge Replacement Languages (HRL) have been the focus of much attention as a formalism to represent the graphs in these datasets. Chiang et al. (2013) prove that HRL graphs can be parsed in polynomial time with respect to the size of the input graph. We believe that HRL are more expressive than is necessary to represent semantic graphs and we propose the use of Regular Graph Languages (RGL; Courcelle 1991), which is a subfamily of HRL, as a possible alternative. We provide a top-down parsing algorithm for RGL that runs in time linear in the size of the input graph.
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S17-1024
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Proceedings of the 6th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2017)
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August
Year:
2017
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Vancouver, Canada
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Nancy Ide, Aurélie Herbelot, Lluís Màrquez
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*SEM
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SIGLEX | SIGSEM
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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199–208
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https://aclanthology.org/S17-1024
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10.18653/v1/S17-1024
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Sorcha Gilroy, Adam Lopez, and Sebastian Maneth. 2017. Parsing Graphs with Regular Graph Grammars. In Proceedings of the 6th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2017), pages 199–208, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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