Bunt H., Carroll J., Satta J. (eds.) New Developments in Parsing Technology

Kluwer, 2004, -343 p.This book is based on contributions to two workshops in the series International Workshop on Parsing Technology. IWPT2000, the 6th workshop in the series, was held in Trento, Italy, in February 2001, and was organized by John Carroll (Programme Chair), Harry Bunt (General Chair) and Alberto Lavelli (Local Chair). The 7th workshop, IWPT2001, took place in Beijing, China, in October 2001, and was organized by Giorgio Satta (Programme Chair), Harry Bunt (General Chair) and Shiwen Yu and Fuliang Weng (Local Co-Chairs). From each of these events the best papers were selected and re-reviewed, and subsequently revised, updated and extended by the authors, resulting in a chapter in this volume. The chapter by Alonso, De la Clergerie, Dґıaz and Vilares is based on material from two papers: the IWPT2000 paper by Alonso, De la Clergerie, Gra˜na and Vilares, and the IWPT2001 paper by Alonso, Dґıaz and Vilares. The chapter by Michael Collins corresponds to the paper that he prepared for IWPT2001 as an invited speaker, but which he was unable to present at the workshop, due to travel restrictions relating to the events of September 11, 2001. The introductory chapter of this book was written by the editors in order to relate the individual chapters to recent issues and developments in the field of parsing technology.Developments in Parsing Technology: From Theory to Application
Parameter Estimation for Statistical Parsing Models: Theory and Practice of Distribution-Free Methods
High Precision Extraction of Grammatical Relations
Automated Extraction of TAGs from the Penn Treebank
Computing the Most Probable Parse for a Discontinuous Phrase-Structure Grammar
A Neural Network Parser that Handles Sparse Data
An Efficient LR Parser Generator for Tree-Adjoining Grammars
Relating Tabular Parsing Algorithms for LIG and TAG
Improved Left-Corner Chart Parsing for Large Context-Free Grammars
On Two Classes of Feature Paths in Large-Scale Unification Grammars
A Context-Free Superset Approximation of Unification-Based Grammars
A Recognizer for Minimalist Languages
Range Concatenation Grammars
Grammar Induction by MDL-Based Distributional Classification
Optimal Ambiguity Packing in Context-Free Parsers with Interleaved Unification
Robust Data Oriented Spoken Language Understanding
SOUP: A Parser for Real-World Spontaneous Speech
Parsing and Hypergraphs
Measure for Measure: Towards Increased Component Comparability and Exchange