W. Detmar Meurers and Guido Minnen
To appear in: Gert Webelhuth, Jean-Pierre Koenig, and Andreas Kathol (eds.): ``Lexical and Constructional Aspects of Linguistic Explanation''. CSLI. 1998.
We investigate the use of a technique developed in the constraint programming community called constraint propagation to improve the efficiency of HPSG generation and parsing. Constraint propagation can make a HPSG theory more specific at those-previously (automatically) determined-places where linguistically motivated underspecification would lead to inefficient processing. We discuss two concrete HPSG examples showing how off-line constraint propagation helps improve processing efficiency.
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Bibtex entry:
@incollection{Meurers:Minnen:98,
author = {Walt Detmar Meurers and Guido Minnen},
title = {Off-line Constraint Propagation for Efficient {HPSG}
Processing},
booktitle = {Lexical and Constructional Aspects of Linguistic
Explanation},
editor = {Gert Webelhuth and Jean-Pierre Koenig and Andreas Kathol},
publisher = {CSLI},
address = {Stanford},
year = {1998}
}