Parsing schemata provide a high-level formal description of parsers. These can be used, among as an intermediate level of abstraction for deriving the formal correctness of a pars...
languages into a general system for describing parsers. Eachparser performs abstract computations using theoperations ofasemiring. Thesystem allows asingle, simple representation t...
We develop, in a stepwise fashion, a set of parser combinators for constructing deterministic, error-correcting parsers. The only restriction on the grammar is that it is not left...
Parsli is a finite-state (FS) parser which can be tailored to the lexicon, syntax, and semantics of a particular application using a hand-editable declarative lexicon. The lexicon...
We describe the design and implementation of a parser combinator library in Newspeak, a new language in the Smalltalk family. Parsers written using our library are remarkably simi...
: Graph parsing is known to be computationally expensive. For this reason the construction of special-purpose parsers may be beneficial for particular graph languages. In the domai...
Background: Interest is growing in the application of syntactic parsers to natural language processing problems in biology, but assessing their performance is difficult because di...
This paper presents recent work using the Chill parser acquisition system to automate the construction of a natural-language interface for database queries. Chill treats parser ac...
This paper investigates bootstrapping for statistical parsers to reduce their reliance on manually annotated training data. We consider both a mostly-unsupervised approach, co-tra...
Mark Steedman, Rebecca Hwa, Stephen Clark, Miles O...
This paper addresses the longstanding problem of the recognition limitations of classical LALR(1) parser generators by proposing the usage of noncanonical parsers. To this end, we...