Message-passing Protocols for Real-world Parsing - An Object-oriented Model and its Preliminary Evaluation

Udo Hahn, Peter Neuhaus, Norbert Broeker


Abstract
We argue for a performance-based design of natural language grammars and their associated parsers in order to meet the constraints imposed by real-world NLP. Our approach incorporates declarative and procedural knowledge about language and language use within an object-oriented specification framework. We discuss several message-passing protocols for parsing and provide reasons for sacrificing completeness of the parse in favor of efficiency based on a preliminary empirical evaluation.
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1997.iwpt-1.14
Volume:
Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies
Month:
September 17-20
Year:
1997
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Boston/Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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Anton Nijholt, Robert C. Berwick, Harry C. Bunt, Bob Carpenter, Eva Hajicova, Mark Johnson, Aravind Joshi, Ronald Kaplan, Martin Kay, Bernard Lang, Alon Lavie, Makoto Nagao, Mark Steedman, Masaru Tomita, K. Vijay-Shanker, David Weir, Kent Wittenburg, Mats Wiren
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IWPT
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SIGPARSE
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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101–112
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Udo Hahn, Peter Neuhaus, and Norbert Broeker. 1997. Message-passing Protocols for Real-world Parsing - An Object-oriented Model and its Preliminary Evaluation. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies, pages 101–112, Boston/Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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