Spurious ambiguity and focalization

Spurious ambiguity is the phenomenon whereby distinct derivations in grammar may assign the same structural reading, resulting in redundancy in the parse search space and inefficiency in parsing. Understanding the problem depends on identifying the essential mathematical structure of derivations. Th...

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Autores: Morrill, Glyn|||0000-0002-5528-4384, Valentín Fernández Gallart, José Oriol
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/119272
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/119272
https://dx.doi.org/10.1162/COLI_a_00316
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Computational linguistics
Categorial grammar
Lingüística computacional
Gramàtica categorial
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Intel·ligència artificial::Llenguatge natural
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Sumario:Spurious ambiguity is the phenomenon whereby distinct derivations in grammar may assign the same structural reading, resulting in redundancy in the parse search space and inefficiency in parsing. Understanding the problem depends on identifying the essential mathematical structure of derivations. This is trivial in the case of context free grammar, where the parse structures are ordered trees; in the case of type logical categorial grammar, the parse structures are proof nets. However, with respect to multiplicatives, intrinsic proof nets have not yet been given for displacement calculus, and proof nets for additives, which have applications to polymorphism, are not easy to characterize. In this context we approach here multiplicative-additive spurious ambiguity by means of the proof-theoretic technique of focalization.