A General Method for Transforming Standard Parsers into Error-Repair Parsers

A desirable property for any system dealing with unrestricted natural language text is robustness, the ability to analyze any input regardless of its grammaticality. In this paper we present a novel, general transformation technique to automatically obtain robust, error-repair parsers from standard non-robust parsers. The resulting error-repair parsing schema is guaranteed to be correct when our method is applied to a correct parsing schema verifying certain conditions that are weak enough to be fulfilled by a wide variety of parsers used in natural language processing.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: CICLING
• Authors: Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, Miguel A. Alonso, Manuel Vilares Ferro
• Keywords: CICLING 2009, Correct Parsing Schema, Error-repair Parsing Schema, Natural Language Processing, Standard Non-robust Parsers