Generation and polynomial parsing of graph languages with non-structural reentrancies
Computational Linguistics, 2023•direct.mit.edu
Graph-based semantic representations are popular in natural language processing, where it
is often convenient to model linguistic concepts as nodes and relations as edges between
them. Several attempts have been made to find a generative device that is sufficiently
powerful to describe languages of semantic graphs, while at the same allowing efficient
parsing. We contribute to this line of work by introducing graph extension grammar, a variant
of the contextual hyperedge replacement grammars proposed by Hoffmann et al. Contextual …
is often convenient to model linguistic concepts as nodes and relations as edges between
them. Several attempts have been made to find a generative device that is sufficiently
powerful to describe languages of semantic graphs, while at the same allowing efficient
parsing. We contribute to this line of work by introducing graph extension grammar, a variant
of the contextual hyperedge replacement grammars proposed by Hoffmann et al. Contextual …
Abstract
Graph-based semantic representations are popular in natural language processing, where it is often convenient to model linguistic concepts as nodes and relations as edges between them. Several attempts have been made to find a generative device that is sufficiently powerful to describe languages of semantic graphs, while at the same allowing efficient parsing. We contribute to this line of work by introducing graph extension grammar, a variant of the contextual hyperedge replacement grammars proposed by Hoffmann et al. Contextual hyperedge replacement can generate graphs with non-structural reentrancies, a type of node-sharing that is very common in formalisms such as abstract meaning representation, but that context-free types of graph grammars cannot model. To provide our formalism with a way to place reentrancies in a linguistically meaningful way, we endow rules with logical formulas in counting monadic second-order logic. We then present a parsing algorithm and show as our main result that this algorithm runs in polynomial time on graph languages generated by a subclass of our grammars, the so-called local graph extension grammars.
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