Efficient Processing with Constraint-Logic Grammars Using Grammar Compilation

Guido Minnen

This book investigates a number of practical problems in processing of written human language. More specifically, we propose a number techniques for automatic analysis and production of language using knowledge about the structure and meaning of human language in the form of constraint-logic grammars. The techniques proposed are all based on automatic grammar adaptation or compilation rather than a modification of the processing algorithm used. As such they allow the grammar writer to abstract over processing details and in many cases enable more efficient processing.

Guido Minnen is currently a staff scientist at the Human Interface Laboratory within Motorola Labs.

2/1/2001

ISBN (Paperback): 1575863065

ISBN (Cloth): 1575863057

Subject: Linguistics; Constraint Programming; Logic Programming