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"abstract": "Advancml Research Projects Agency under C,mtraet NOOO39-g4-K-0n78 with the Naval Electronics Systems Ckm~mand. The views and ronchtsi~ms contained in this &Jcument should not be interpreted a.s representative of the official p~dicies, either expressed or implied, of the D~'fen~p Research Projects Agency or the United States governmont. The author is indebted to Fernando Pereira and Ray Perrault for their comments on ea, riier drafts o[ this paper.",
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"text": "Grammar formalisms based on the encoding of grammatical information in complex-valued feature systems enjoy some currency both in linguistics and natural-language-processing research. Such formalisms can be thought of by analogy to context-free grammars as generalizing the notion of nonterminal symbol from a finite domain of atomic elements to a possibly infinite domain of directed graph structures nf a certain sort. Unfortunately, in moving to an infinite nonterminal domain, standard methods of parsing may no longer be applicable to the formalism. Typically, the problem manifests itself ,as gross inefficiency or ew, n nonterminat icm of the alg~,rit hms. In this paper, we discuss a solution to the problem of extending parsing algorithms to formalisms with possibly infinite nonterminal domains, a solution based on a general technique we call restriction. As a particular example of such an extension, we present a complete, correct, terminating extension of Earley's algorithm that uses restriction to perform top-down filtering. Our implementation of this algorithm demonstrates the drastic elimination of chart edges that can be achieved by this technique. Fit,all.v, we describe further uses for the technique--including parsing other grammar formalisms, including definite.clause grammars; extending other parsing algorithms, including LR methods and syntactic preference modeling algorithms; anti efficient indexing.",
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"text": "Grammar formalisms ba.sed on the encircling of grantmalical information in complex-valued fealure systems enjoy some currency both in linguistics and natural-languageprocessing research. Such formalisms can be thought of by analogy to context-free grammars a.s generalizing the notion of nonterminai symbol from a finite domain of atomic elements to a possibly infinite domain of directed graph structures of a certain sort. Many of tile sm'fa,',,-bast,,I grammatical formalisms explicitly dvfin,,,I ,,r pr~\"~Ul~p,~'.,'.l in linguistics can be characterized in this way ,,.~.. It.xi ,Ifunctional grammar (I,F(;} [5] , generalizt,I I,hr:~,' ~l rlt,'l ur,. grammar (GPSG) [.1], even categorial systems such ,as M,,ntague grammar [81 and Ades/Steedman grammar Ill --,~s can several of the grammar formalisms being used in naturallanguage processing research--e.g., definite clause grammar (DCG) [9] , and PATR-II [13] .",
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"text": "Unfortunately, in moving to an infinite nonlermiual de,main, standard methods of parsing may no h,ngvr t~, applicable to the formalism. ~k~r instance, the application of techniques for preprocessing of grantmars in ,,rder t,, gain efficiency may fail to terminate, ~ in left-c,~rner and LR algorithms. Algorithms performing top-dc~wn prediction (e.g. top-down backtrack parsing, Earley's algorithm) may not terminate at parse time. Implementing backtracking regimens~useful for instance for generating parses in some particular order, say, in order of syntactic preference--is in general difficult when LR-style and top-down backtrack techniques are eliminated.",
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"text": "[n this paper, we discuss a s~dul.ion to the pr~,blem of extending parsing algorithms to formalisms with possibly infinite nonterminal domains, a solution based on an operation we call restriction. In Section 2, we summarize traditional proposals for solutions and problems inherent in them and propose an alternative approach to a solution using restriction. In Section 3, we present some technical background including a brief description of the PATR-II formalism~ which is used as the formalism interpreted by the parsing algorithms~and a formal definition of restriction for PATR-II's nonterminal domain. In Section 4, we develop a correct, complete and terminating extension of Earley's algorithm for the PATR-II formalism using the restriction notion. Readers uninterested in the technical details of the extensions may want to skip these latter two sections, referring instead to Section 4.1 for an informal overview of the algorithms. Finally, in Section 5, we discuss applications of the particular algorithm and the restriction technique in general.",
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"text": "Problems with efficiently parsing formalisms based on potentially infinite nonterminal domains have manifested themselves in many different ways. Traditional solutions have involved limiting in some way the class of grammars that can be parsed.",
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"text": "The limitations can be applied to the formalism by, for instance, adding a context-free \"backbone.\" If we require that a context-free subgrammar be implicit in every grammar, the subgrammar can be used for parsing and the rest of the grammar used az a filter during or aRer parsing. This solution has been recommended for functional unification grammars (FI,G) by Martin Kay [61; its legacy can be seen in the context-free skeleton of LFG, and the Hewlett-Packard GPSG system [31, and in the cat feature requirement in PATR-[I that is described below.",
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"text": "First, the move from context-free to complex-feature-based formalisms wan motivated by the desire to structure the notion of nonterminal. Many analyses take advantage of this by eliminating mention of major category information from particular rules a or by structuring the major category itself (say into binary N and V features plus a bar-level feature as in ~-based theories). F.rcing the primacy and atomicity of major category defeats part of the purpose of structured category systems.",
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"text": "Sec, m,l. and perhaps more critically, because only certain ,ff the information in a rule is used to guide the parse, say major category information, only such information can be used to filter spurious hypotheses by top-down filtering. Note that this problem occurs even if filtering by the rule information is used to eliminate at the earliest possible time constituents and partial constituents proposed during parsing {as is the case in the PATR-II implementation and the ~Se~'. [or instance, the coordination and copular \"be\" aaalyses from GPSG [4 I, the nested VP analysis used in some PATR-ll grammars 11.5 I, or almost all categorial analyse~, in which general roles of combination play the role o1' specific phlr~se-stroctur\u00a2 roles.",
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"text": "Earley algorithm given below; cf. the Xerox LFG system}. Thus, if information about subcategorization is left out of the category information in the context-free skeleton, it cannot be used to eliminate prediction edges. For example, if we find a verb that subcategorizes for a noun phrase, but the grammar rules allow postverbal NPs, PPs, Ss, VPs, and so forth, the parser will have no way to eliminate the building of edges corresponding to these categories. Only when such edges attempt to join with the V will the inconsistency be found. Similarly, if information about filler-gap dependencies is kept extrinsic to the category information, as in a slash category in GPSG or an LFG annotation concerning a matching constituent for a I~ specification, there will be no way to keep from hypothesizing gaps at any given vertex. This \"gap-proliferation\" problem has plagued many attempts at building parsers for grammar formalisms in this style.",
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"text": "In fact, by making these stringent requirements on what information is used to guide parsing, we have to a certain extent thrown the baby out with the bathwater. These formalisms were intended to free us from the tyranny of atomic nonterminal symbols, but for good performance, we are forced toward analyses putting more and more information in an atomic category feature. An example of this phenomenon can be seen in the author's paper on LR syntactic preference parsing [14] . Because the LALR table building algorithm does not in general terminate for complex-featurebased grammar formalisms, the grammar used in that paper was a simple context-free grammar with subcategorization and gap information placed in the atomic nonterminal symbol.",
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"text": "On the other hand, the grammar formalism can be left unchanged, but particular grammars dew,loped that happen not to succumb to the problems inhere, at in the g,,neral parsing problem for the formalism. The solution mentioned above of placing more information in lilt, category symbol falls into this class. Unpublished work by Kent Witwnburg and by Robin Cooper has attempted to solve the gap proliferation problem using special grammars.",
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"text": "In building a general tool for grammar testing and debugging, however, we would like to commit as little ,as possible to a particular grammar or style of grammar.: Furthermore, the grammar designer should not be held down in building an analysis by limitations of the algorithms. Thus a solution requiring careful crMting of grammars is inadequate.",
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"text": "Finally, specialized parsing alg~withms can be designed that make use of information about the p;trtictd;tr grammar being parsed to eliminate spurious edges or h vpotheses. Rather than using a general parsing algorithm on a 'See [121 for further discl~sioa of thi~ matter. limited formalism, Ford, Bresnan, and Kaplan [21 chose a specialized algorithm working on grammars in the full LFG formalism to model syntactic preferences. Current work at Hewlett-Packard on parsing recent variants of GPSG seems to take this line as well.",
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"text": "Again, we feel that the separation of burden is inappropriate in such an attack, especially in a grammar-development context. Coupling the grammar design and parser design problems in this way leads to the linguistic and technological problems becoming inherently mixed, magnifying the difficulty of writing an adequate grammar/parser system.",
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"text": "Instead, we would like a parsing algorithm that placed no restraints on the grammars it could handle as long as they could be expressed within the intended formalism. Still, the algorithm should take advantage of that part of the arbitrarily large amount of information in the complex-feature structures that is significant for guiding parsing with the particular grammar. One of the aforementioned solutions is to require the grammar writer to put all such significant information in a special atomic symbol--i.e., mandate a context-free backbone. Another is to use all of the feature structure information--but this method, as we shall see, inevitably leads to nonterminating algorithms.",
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"text": "A compromise is to parameterize the parsing algorithm by a small amount of grammar-dependent information that tells the algorithm which of the information in the feature structures is significant for guiding the parse. That is, the parameter determines how to split up the infinite nonterminal domain into a finite set of equivalence classes that can be used for parsing. By doing so, we have an optimal compromise: Whatever part of the feature structure is significant we distinguish in the equivalence classes by setting the parameter appropriately, so the information is used in parsing. But because there are only a finite number of equivalence ciasses, parsing algorithms guided in this way will terminate.",
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"text": "The technique we use to form equivalence classes is restrietion, which involves taking a quotient of the domain with respect to a rcstrietor. The restrictor thus serves as the sole repository, of grammar-dependent information in the algorithm. By tuning the restrictor, the set of equivalence classes engendered can be changed, making the algorithm more or less efficient at guiding the parse. But independent of the restrictor, the algorithm will be correct, since it is still doing parsing over a finite domain of \"nonterminals,\" namely, the elements of the restricted domain. This idea can be applied to solve many of the problems engendered by infinite nonterminal domains, allowing preprocessing of grammars as required by LR and LC algorithms, allowing top-down filtering or prediction as in Earley and top-down backtrack parsing, guaranteeing termination, etc.",
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"text": "Before discussing the use of restriction in parsing algorithms, we present some technical details, including a brief introduction to the PATR-II grammar formalism, which will serve as the grammatical formalism that the presented algorithms will interpret. PATR-II is a simple grammar formalism that can serve as the least common denominator of many of the complex-feature-based and unification-based formalisms prevalent in linguistics and computational linguistics. As such it provides a good testbed for describing algorithms for complex-feature-based formalisms.",
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"text": "The PATR-II nonterminal domain is a lattice of directed, acyclic, graph structures (dags). s Dags can be thought of similar to the reentrant f-structures of LFG or functional structures of FUG, and we will use the bracketed notation associated with these formalisms for them. For example. the following is a dag {D0) in this notation, with reentrancy indicated with coindexing boxes: ",
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"text": "Dags come in two varieties, complez (like the one above) and atomic (like the dags h and c in the example). Con~plex dags can be viewed a.s partial functions from labels to dag values, and the notation D(l) will therefore denote the value associated with the label l in the dag D. In the same spirit.",
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"text": "we can refer to the domain of a dag (dora(D)). A dag with an empty domain is often called an empty dag or variable. A path in a dag is a sequence of label names (notated, e.g..",
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"text": "(d e ,f)), which can be used to pick out a particular subpart of the dag by repeated application {in this case. the dag [g : hi). We will extend the notation D(p) in the obvious way to include the subdag of D picked ~,tlt b.v a path p. We will also occasionally use the square brackets as l he dag c~mstructor function, so that [f : DI where D is an expression denoting a dag will denote the dag whose f feature has value D.",
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"text": "There is a natural lattice structure for dags based on The following examples illustrate the notion of unification:",
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"text": "Now. consider the notion of restriction of a dag, using the term almost in its technical sense of restricting the domain ,)f ,x function. By viewing dags as partial functions from labels to dag values, we can envision a process ,~f restricting the ,l~mlain of this function to a given set of labels. Extending this process recursively to every level of the dag, we have the ,'-ncept of restriction used below. Given a finite, sperifi-,'ati,,n ~ (called a restrictor) of what the allowable domain at ,,:u'h node of a dag is, we can define a functional, g', that yields the dag restricted by the given restrictor.",
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"text": "Formally, we define restriction as follows. Given a relation between paths and labels, and a dag D, we define D~ to be the most specific dag LF C D such that for every path p either D'(p) is undefined, or if(p) is atomic, or for every ! E dom(D'(p)}, pOl. That is, every path in the restricted dag is either undefined, atomic, or specifically allowed by the restrictor.",
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"text": "The restriction process can be viewed as putting dags into equivalence classes, each equivalence class being the largest set of dags that all are restricted to the same dag {which we will call its canonical member). It follows from the definition that in general O~O C_ D. Finally, if we disallow infinite relations as restrictors (i.e., restrictors must not allow values for an infinite number of distinct paths) as we will do for the remainder of the discussion, we are guaranteed to have only a finite number of equivalence classes.",
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"text": "contained in the dags. Intuitively viewed, a dag D subsumes a dag D' {notated D ~/T) if D contains a subset of the information in (i.e., is more general than)/Y. Thus variables subsume all other dags, atomic or complex, because as the trivial case, they contain no information at all. A complex dag D subsumes a complex dag De if and only if D(i) C D'(I) for all l E dora(D) and LF(P) =/Y(q) for all paths p and q such that D(p) = D(q). An atomic dag neither subsumes nor is subsumed by any different atomic dag. Finally, given two dags D' and D\", the unification of the dags is the most general dag D such that LF ~ D and D a C_ D. We notate this D = D ~ U D\".",
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"text": "Using our previous example, consider a restrictor 4~0 generated from the set of paths {(a b), (d e f),(d i j f)}. That is, pool for all p in the listed paths and all their prefixes. Then given the previous dag Do, D0~O0 is a: [b: e l Restriction has thrown away all the infi~rmatiou except the direct values of (a b), (d e f), and (d i j f). (Note however that because the values for paths such as (d e f 9) were thrown away, (D0~'\u00a2o)((d e f)) is a variahh,.)",
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"text": "Xo -\" Xt .\\': : (.\\,, ,'sO = >' (.\\', rat) = .X l' (.\\': cat) = I'P (X, agreement) = (.\\'~ agreement).",
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"text": "the rule. D,(p) = D,(q). Similarly, unifications of the form p = a where a is atomic would require that D,(p) = a. For the rule mentioned above, such a dug would be Thus a rule can be thought of as an ordered pair (P, D) whore P is a production of the form X0 --XI -.. X, and D is a dug with top-level features Xo,..., X, and with atomic values for the eat feature of each of the top-level subdags.",
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"text": "'', Wn. An item of the form [h, i, A --a.~, D I designates an edge in the chart from vertex h to i with dotted rule A --a.3 and dag D. The chart is initialized with an edge [0, 0, X0 --.a, DI for each rule (X0 --a, D) where D((.% cat)) = S.",
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"text": "step: For each item ending at i c,f the form [h, i, Xo --a.Xj~, D I and each rule ,ff the form (-\\'o --~, E) such that E((Xo cat)) = D((Xi cat)), add an edge of the form [i, i,.I( 0 --.3,, E] if this edge is not subsumed by another edge.",
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"text": "we have Predictor step: For each item ending at i of the form ih. i. Xo --a.Xj~, DI and each rule of the form (Xo \"~. E). add an edge of the form [i, i, X0 --.7, Ell {X0 : D(Xj)II if the unification succeeds and this edge is not subsumed by another edge.",
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"text": "SSimilar problems occur in natural language grammars when keeping lists of, say, subcategorized constituents or galm to be found.",
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"text": "Predictor step: For each item ending at i of the f(~rm Ih, i, .% --c,..Y~;L DI and each rule of the form,{.\\'0 --\"t, E}, add an edge of the form ft. i..V0 --.'~. E u {D{Xi)I~4~}] if the unification succeeds and this odge is not subsumed by another edge. This step predicts top-do,,n flit rules ,'h,.~r lefl.ha,d side matrhes the restricted (lag of .~ott:e r,o.~tilttcol fitting looked for. Completer step: AS before. Se~m, er step: As before.This algorithm on the previous grammar, using a restrictor that allows through only the cat feature of a dag, operates a.s before, but predicts the first time around the more general edge",
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"text": "The alg.rithnl just described liras been imph,meuted and in-(',>rp()rat,,<l into the PATR-II Exp(,rinwntal Syst(,m at SRI Itlt,.rnali(,)lal. a gr:lmmar deveh)pment :m(l tt,~,ting envirt)nm,.))t fi,l' I'\\TILII ~rammars writt(.u in Z(.t:llisl) for the Syrnl)+)li('~ 3(;(ll).",
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"text": "'xte:M('(} Earh,y's algorithl,,. The -,<'('(,n,{ a<{d,,,l su{w:tle-m+,rizati+.n illf-rrllalion in a<l(lili(,n t<)lh(,(-:H+,~<)ry: Thethird a<hl-d lill.+r-gap +h,l.'ndency infornlaliou a.s well ~,<+ Ihat the ~:tp pr.lif<.rati<,n pr-hlem wa.s r<,m<)ved. The lin:d restri<'tor ad,lo.I v<,rb form informati.n. The last c<flutnn shows the p,,r('entag+, of edges that were elin,inated by using this final restrh-tor. Prediction % Sentence eat] + s.bcat I + gap t \u00f7 form elim.",
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"text": "and Warren [i 1 I. Pereira has use<l a similar technique to improve the ellh'iency of the BI'P (bottomup h,ft-corner) parser [71 for DCC;. I,F(; and t;PSC parsers can nlake use of the top-down filteringdevic,,a~wvll. [:f'(; p,'tl~ot'~ n|ight be [mill th;tl d() ll(d. r<,<[11il'i. ;+. c<~llt+,,,;-l'ri,~. backl><.m,.",
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"text": "++cheme~. l'(+r s,'hed.lin~ I,I{ l>:irnt.r:.-+ h~ yi..hl l,;~r.,,.-, i. l>rvl \"-or+,m-e ,~r+h'r t.i:~hl I., it,,,lilie~l fi,r .',.mld.,x-f,,:lqur.-l,;r~.,,l fl)rlllaliP,.llln, alld et,'cn t1111t,<[ Iw lll+,:)+tln .d + lilt + l.(,,+.tl'ivt~+r.",
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