We present a simple approximation method for turning a Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar into a context-free grammar. The approximation method can be seen as the construction o...
We define state transition grammars (STG) as an intermediate tbrmalism between grammars and parsing algorithms which is intended to separate the description of a parsing strategy ...
Common wisdom has it that tile bias of stochastic grammars in favor of shorter deriwttions of a sentence is hamfful and should be redressed. We show that the common wisdom is wron...
Leftist grammars [Motwani et al., STOC 2000] are special semi-Thue systems where symbols can only insert or erase to their left. We develop a theory of leftist grammars seen as wor...