Partially Ordered Multiset Context-free Grammars and Free-word-order Parsing

Mark-Jan Nederhof, Giorgio Satta, Stuart Shieber


Abstract
We present a new formalism, partially ordered multiset context-free grammars (poms-CFG), along with an Earley-style parsing algorithm. The formalism, which can be thought of as a generalization of context-free grammars with partially ordered right-hand sides, is of interest in its own right, and also as infrastructure for obtaining tighter complexity bounds for more expressive context-free formalisms intended to express free or multiple word-order, such as ID/LP grammars. We reduce ID/LP grammars to poms-grammars, thereby getting finer-grained bounds on the parsing complexity of ID/LP grammars. We argue that in practice, the width of attested ID/LP grammars is small, yielding effectively polynomial time complexity for ID/LP grammar parsing.
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W03-3020
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Parsing Technologies
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April
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2003
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Nancy, France
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IWPT
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SIGPARSE
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171–182
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Mark-Jan Nederhof, Giorgio Satta, and Stuart Shieber. 2003. Partially Ordered Multiset Context-free Grammars and Free-word-order Parsing. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Parsing Technologies, pages 171–182, Nancy, France.
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