Local Syntactic Constraints

Jacky Herz, Mori Rimon


Abstract
A method to reduce ambiguity at the level of word tagging, on the basis of local syntactic constraints, is described. Such “short context” constraints are easy to process and can remove most of the ambiguity at that level, which is otherwise a source of great difficulty for parsers and other applications in certain natural languages. The use of local constraints is also very effective for quick invalidation of a large set of ill-formed inputs. While in some approaches local constraints are defined manually or discovered by processing of large corpora, we extract them directly from a grammar (typically context free) of the given language. We focus on deterministic constraints, but later extend the method for a probabilistic language model.
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1991.iwpt-1.23
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Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Parsing Technologies
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February 13-25
Year:
1991
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Cancun, Mexico
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Masaru Tomita, Martin Kay, Robert Berwick, Eva Hajicova, Aravind Joshi, Ronald Kaplan, Makoto Nagao, Yorick Wilks
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IWPT
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SIGPARSE
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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200–209
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Jacky Herz and Mori Rimon. 1991. Local Syntactic Constraints. In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Parsing Technologies, pages 200–209, Cancun, Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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