Parsing as constraint transformation: an extension of cu-Prolog

Abstract: "Natural language processing involves a very complex flow of information which cannot be stipulated in terms of procedural programs. This necessitates some sort of constraint programming. In order to embody this picture, we have developed a constraint logic programming (CLP) language...

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Hauptverfasser: Tsuda, Hiroshi (VerfasserIn), Hasida, Kôiti (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Tokyo, Japan 1990
Schriftenreihe:Shin-Sedai-Konpyūta-Gijutsu-Kaihatsu-Kikō <Tōkyō>: ICOT technical memorandum 984
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Zusammenfassung:Abstract: "Natural language processing involves a very complex flow of information which cannot be stipulated in terms of procedural programs. This necessitates some sort of constraint programming. In order to embody this picture, we have developed a constraint logic programming (CLP) language cu-Prolog. Unlike most CLP systems, cu-Prolog allows user- defined and dynamically defined predicates to represent symbolic/combinatorial constraints. The constraint satisfaction in cu- Prolog is regarded as a sort of unfold/fold transformation of logic programming. This paper extends cu-Prolog and presents a constraint-based approach to sentence comprehension
First, local constraints on the feature structure of categories of the unification-based grammar such as HPSG and JPSG are treated as constraints of cu-Prolog. In this respect, mainly feature constraint is processed not as procedures but as constraints. Second, the constraint transformation method is extended here, by incorporating global variables and a tabulation technique, so that parsing of a context-free language is subsumed in constraint transformation. This process naturally corresponds to chart parsing. Finally, these two aspects naturally fit each other in our constraint-based approach, unlike most NLP systems, which have distinct procedure modules to deal with the above two aspects of parsing and make them interact
Some examples are provided which demonstrate homogeneous treatment of feature structure and phrase structure.
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