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"abstract": "In this paper we discuss the formal relationship between the classes of languages generated by Tree Adjoining Grammars and Head Grammars. In particular, we show that Head Languages are included in Tree Adjoining Languages and that Tree Adjoining Grammars are equivalent to a modification of Head Grammars called Modified Head Grammars. The inclusion of MHL in HL, and thus the equivalence of HG's and TAG's, in the most general case remains to be established.",
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"text": "This paper discusses the relationstfip between Tree Adjoining Grammars (TAG's) and :Head Grammars (HG's). TAG's and HG's, introduced to capture certain structural properties of natural languages, were developed independently. TAG's deal with a set of elementary trees which are composed by means of an operation called adjoining. HG's are like Context-free Grammars, except for the fact that besides concatenation of strings, string wrapping operations are permitted. TAG's were first introduced in 1975 by Joshi, Levy and Wakahashi [3] . Joshi [2] investigated some formal and linguistic properties of TAG's with local constraints. The formulation of local constraints was then modified and formal properties were investigated by Vijay-Shanker and Joshi [9] . The linguistic properties were studied in detail by Kroeh and Joshi [5] . HG's were first introduced by Pollard [6] in 1983 and their formal properties were investigated by Roach [7] . It was observed that the two systems seemed to possess similar generative power and since they also appear to have the same closure properties [7, 9] as well as similar parsing algorithn~ [6, 9] a significant amount of indirect evidence existed to suggest that they were formally equivalent. In the present paper, we will attempt to provide a characterization of the formal relationship between HG's and TAG's. In [10] we consider various linguistic aspects of the relationship: in particular what might be referred to as the strong equivalence of the two formalisms.",
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"text": "Vijay-Shanker and Joshi [9] provided a brief description of the intuition behind the inclusion of Tree Adjoining Langages (TAL) in the class of languages generated by a variant of HG's called Modified Head Grammars (MHG's). In the present paper, we give a proof of this result as well as a proof for the inclusion of Modified Head Languages (MHL) in TAL: hence we show that MHG's and TAG's are equivalent. This result is presented in section 3. In section 2, we discuss the relationship between MHG's and HG's.",
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"text": "J\" This work was partially supported by NSF grants MCS-82-19116-CER, MCS-82-07294 and DC1~-84-10413. We are grateful bo Tony Kroch and Carl Pollard for valuable discus~ sions.",
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"text": "We now define the adjoining operation. Let ~ be some node labelled X in a tree % Let fl be an auxiliary tree with root and foot labelled by X. The tree obtained by adjoilfing fl at r/ is given in tigurc 1.2.",
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"text": "The subtree under ~ is excised from % the auxiliary tree [~ is inserted in its place and the excised subtree is inserted at the foot of/~. As defined above it is possible to adjoin any auxiliary tree at a node as long as the label of the node was the same as that of the root and the foot of the auxiliary tree. How-. ever, in general, adjoining will be constrained ss follows. Associated with each node is a selective adjoining (SA) constraint specifying that subset of the auxiliary tree which can be adjoined at this node. Trees can only be included in the SA constraint associated with a particular node if their root and foot are labelled with the same nonterminal that labels the node .There are two special cases: (a) the subset specified by SA is the entire set of auxiliary trees~ in this case the entire set need not be explicitly listed; (b) the subset specified is empty i.e., no adjoining is possible. We call this the null adjoining (NA) constraint. A node may be associated with a a so-called obligatory adjoining (OA) constraint which can be used to ensure that an adjunction is obligatorily performed at a node. Example 1.1 We now present an example TAG G, which illustrates the notation used to specify the constraints associated with a node. There is one initial tree a and two auxiliary trees fll and f12: 0(: S o~ :",
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"text": "Having introduced SA and OA constraints, we must extend the definition of the adjunction operation. Suppose we adjoin an auxiliary tree fl at a node y of a tree ~/producing the tree ~'. For those nodes in ~' that do not correspond to nodes of fl, the constraints remain the same as those in % The remaining nodes in \"7 ~ have the same constraints as those for the corresponding nodes of ft. For example, consider a sample derivations in the grammar G as given below in figure 1.4. We use an * to indicate the node at which adjunetion is performed. We will now present an alternative (yet equivalent) definition of the adjoining operation. So far, our definition allowed us to adjoin only with auxiliary trees, and allowed adjunetion only into sentential trees. This can be generalized to allow adjunctions of any tree derived from an auxiliary tree into any derived ti'ee. Consider the derivation given in figure 1.4. Given this generalization of adjunetion, we can also derive the same tree q2 by composing trees in the following sequence. The derived auxiliary tree \"-/~ can be obtained by adjoining f12 in fl~. ~/~ can then be adjoined in a to give q~. Notice that trees derived from an auxiliary tree fl, will always have the property that their root and foot are labelled with the same nonterminal as those of ft. Viewing a derivation in this manner considerably simplifies several proofs of formal properties of 'rAG's [9] .",
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"text": "O~ S~ 5~ Sr~ figure 1.5 We use the notation P(3) to denote the set of trees derived from the elementary tree 3 using 0 or more adjunctions.",
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"text": "Now we can see that tile language Lt, generated by the example grammar G, is L1 =: { a'~gbnfcnh ]n > 0 }",
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"text": "Suppose there is a derived auxiliary tree \"7 correspond\u00b0 ing to the above derivation of wl~w2, from Y where the foot node appears at the split point, as shown in figure 1.6 below. Also assume that there is a node ~/dominating a subtree that corresponds to a derivation of vl~v2 from Z where, as before~ we assume that the foot node appears at the split point. Consider the tree resulting from the adjunction of *7 at the node ~?, also shown in figure 1.6. The resulting tree can be thought of as corresponding to the derivation of the split string wlvl)v2w2 from X. This example illustrates the basic intuition behind the constructions involved in the following proofs showing the equivalence of MHG's and TAG's.",
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"text": "We prove that L(G) C_ L(G') by induction on the length of the MHG derivation. We show that if X =% wlTw= then there is a derived auxiliary tree having no OA constraints, with root labelled X and frontier wlXw2.",
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"text": "We prove that L(G') C L(G) by induction on the height of the \"rAG derivation tree. We show that if q E P (fl), has no OA constraints, and has frontier wlXw2 then X =% wlrw2.",
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"text": "While straightforward, the proof given above does not capture the linguistic motivation underlying TAG's. The auxiliary trees directly reflect the use of the concatenation and the wrapping operations. It is also interesting to note that a consequence of the equivalence of MHG's and TAG's and the construction used in proving the inclusion of MHL in TAL is that we have the following normal form for TAG's. For any TAG there is an equivalent TAG with exactly one initial tree and auxiliary trees which are of five possible forms shown above.",
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"text": "In this paper we have shown the equivalence of TAL and MHL. Since we have also established the inclusion of HL in MHL we have shown that HLs are included in TALs. The inclusion of MHL in HL, and thus the equivalence of HG's and TAG's, in the most general case remains to be established We briefly discuss the relationship between MHG's and HG's and argue that it is close, both linguistically and formally. ",
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