Computer Science – Computation and Language
Scientific paper
1997-05-12
Computer Science
Computation and Language
15 pages (Latex, Postscript), to appear in Proceedings IJCAI-97
Scientific paper
Recently researchers working in the LFG framework have proposed algorithms for taking advantage of the implicit context-free components of a unification grammar [Maxwell 96]. This paper clarifies the mathematical foundations of these techniques, provides a uniform framework in which they can be formally studied and eliminates the need for special purpose runtime data-structures recording ambiguity. The paper posits the identity: Ambiguous Feature Structures = Grammars, which states that (finitely) ambiguous representations are best seen as unification grammars of a certain type, here called ``interaction-free'' grammars, which generate in a backtrack-free way each of the feature structures subsumed by the ambiguous representation. This work extends a line of research [Billot and Lang 89, Lang 94] which stresses the connection between charts and grammars: a chart can be seen as a specialization of the reference grammar for a given input string. We show how this specialization grammar can be transformed into an interaction-free form which has the same practicality as a listing of the individual solutions, but is produced in less time and space.
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