The intersection of Finite State Automata and Definite Clause Grammars
| dc.creator | van Noord, Gertjan | |
| dc.date | 1995-04-28 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T09:09:47Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T09:09:47Z | |
| dc.description | Bernard Lang defines parsing as the calculation of the intersection of a FSA (the input) and a CFG. Viewing the input for parsing as a FSA rather than as a string combines well with some approaches in speech understanding systems, in which parsing takes a word lattice as input (rather than a word string). Furthermore, certain techniques for robust parsing can be modelled as finite state transducers. In this paper we investigate how we can generalize this approach for unification grammars. In particular we will concentrate on how we might the calculation of the intersection of a FSA and a DCG. It is shown that existing parsing algorithms can be easily extended for FSA inputs. However, we also show that the termination properties change drastically: we show that it is undecidable whether the intersection of a FSA and a DCG is empty (even if the DCG is off-line parsable). Furthermore we discuss approaches to cope with the problem. | |
| dc.description | 7 pages. Requires pictexwd package. To appear in ACL 95 | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9504026 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9504026 | |
| dc.identifier | Proceedings of the 33rd ACL. Boston 1995. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/151159 | |
| dc.subject | Computation and Language | |
| dc.title | The intersection of Finite State Automata and Definite Clause Grammars | |
| dc.type | text |