Publications by Stephan Kepser

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In press

Stephan Kepser. On the Complexity of RSRL. To appear in Journal of Language and Computation, Geert-Jan Kruijf, Larry Moss, and Richard Oehrle (eds.), in press.

Stephan Kepser and James Rogers. The Equivalence of Tree Adjoining Grammars and Monadic Linear Context-free Tree Grammars. In Journal of Logic, Language, and Information, Gerald Penn (ed.), in press.
Preprint

2010

Stephan Kepser. On Monadic Second-Order Theories of Multidominance Structures. In The Mathematics of Language, Christian Ebert, Gerhard Jäger, and Jens Michaelis (eds.), pp. 117-128. LNCS 6149, Springer 2010.
Paper

Stephan Kepser, Uwe Mönnich, and Frank Morawietz. Regular Query Techniques for XML-Documents. In Linguistic modeling of information and Markup Languages, Dieter Metzing and Andreas Witt (eds), pp. 249-266. Springer 2010.
Book Contents

Stephan Kepser and James Rogers. The Equivalence of Tree Adjoining Grammars and Monadic Linear Context-free Tree Grammars. In The Mathematics of Language, Christian Ebert, Gerhard Jäger, and Jens Michaelis (eds.), pp. 129-144. LNCS 6149, Springer 2010.
Paper

2009

Hans-Jörg Tiede and Stephan Kepser. Monadic Second-Order Logic and Transitive Closure Logics over Trees. In Research on Language and Computation, 7(1): 41-54.
Paper   (draft)

Stephan Kepser. On Monadic Second-Order Theories over Multidominance Structures. In The 11th Meeting on Mathematics of Language 11, Christian Ebert, Gerhard Jäger,Marcus Kracht, and Jens Michaelis (eds.), pp. 57-64, 2009.
Paper

Hendrik Maryns and Stephan Kepser. MonaSearch - A Tool for Querying Linguistic Treebanks. In Treebanks and Linguistic Theories 2009, Frank Van Eynde, Anette Frank, Koenraad De Smedt (eds), pp. 29-40, 2009
Paper

2008

Firtz Hamm and Stephan Kepser (eds.). Logics for Linguistic Structures. Trends in Linguistics 201, Mouton de Gruyter.
Book

Stephan Kepser. A Landscape of Logics for Finite Unordered Unranked Trees. In Formal Grammar 2008, Philippe de Groote, Laura Kallmeyer, Gerald Penn, and Giorgio Satta (eds.), 2008.
Paper

2007

Gerhard Jäger and Stephan Kepser. Automata, Complexity, and Optimality Theory. In Cognitive Foundations of Interpretation, Gerlof Bouma, Irene Krämer, Joost Zwarts (eds.), pp. 95-110, 2007.
Book

Stephan Kepser and Jim Rogers. The Equivalence of Tree Adjoining Grammars and Monadic Linear Context-free Tree Grammars. In Mathematics of Language 10, Marcus Kracht, Gerald Penn, and Ed Stabler (eds.), 2007.
Extended abstract

Jim Rogers and Stephan Kepser (eds.). Model Theoretic Syntax at 10. Proceedings, workshop at ESSLLI 2007.
Proceedings

2006

Stephan Kepser. Properties of Binary Transitive Closure Logic over Trees. In Formal Grammar 2006, Paola Monachesi, Gerald Penn, Giorgio Satta, and Shuly Wintner (eds.), pp. 77-89, 2006.
Paper     Postproceedings version (with stronger results)

Stephan Kepser and Uwe Mönnich. Closure Properties of Linear Context-Free Tree Languages with an Application to Optimality Theory. In Theoretical Computer Science, 354(1), 82-97, 2006.
Paper
Corrigendum: Corollary 5 is true only if the CFTG is linear and non-deleting.

Hans-Jörg Tiede and Stephan Kepser. Monadic Second-Order Logic and Transitive Closure Logics over Trees . In 13th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation, Grigori Mints (ed.), Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, Volume 165, pages 189-199, 2006.
Paper

2005

Stephan Kepser. Using MONA for Querying Linguistic Treebanks. In Proceedings HLT/EMNLP 2005, Chris Brew, Lee-Feng Chien, Katrin Kirchhoff (eds.), pp. 555-563, 2005.
Paper

Stephan Kepser and Marga Reis (eds). Linguistic Evidence - Empirical, Theoretical, and Computational Perspectives. Mouton de Gruyter, 2005
Book

2004

Stefanie Herrman, Hartmut Keck, and Stephan Kepser. A Multi-Modal Documentation System for Warao. In Proceedings LREC 2004, Maria Teresa Lino et al. (eds.), vol. IV, pp. 1377-1380, 2004.
Paper

Stephan Kepser. Querying Linguistic Treebanks with Monadic Second-Order Logic in Linear Time. In Journal of Logic, Language, and Information, 13: 457-470, 2004.
Paper

Stephan Kepser. Bidirectional Optimality for Regular Tree Languages. In Formal Grammar 2004, Gerhard Jäger, Paola Monachesi, Gerald Penn and Shuly Wintner (eds.), pp. 63-76, 2004.

Stephan Kepser. A Simple Proof of the Turing-Completeness of XSLT and XQuery. In Extreme Markup Languages 2004, Tommie Usdin (ed.), 2004.
Paper

Stephan Kepser. On the Complexity of RSRL. In Proceedings FG-MOL 2001, Larry Moss and Richard Oehrle (eds.). Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science 53, pp. 146-162, 2004.
Paper
Revised version submitted to Language and Computation.

Stephan Kepser and Marga Reis (eds.). Linguistic Evidence - Empirical, Theoretical, and Computational Perspectives. Preproceedings, 2004.

Stephan Kepser, Ilona Steiner, and Wolfgang Sternefeld. Annotating and Querying a Treebank of Suboptimal Structures. In Treebanks and Linguistic Theories 2004, Sandra Kübler and Joakim Nivre (eds.), pp. 63-74, 2004.
Paper

2003

Stephan Kepser. Querying Linguistic Treebanks with Monadic Second-Order Logic in Linear Time. In Proceedings Mathematics of Language (MoL8), Dick Oehrle and Jim Rogers (eds.), pp. 93 - 104, 2003.
Paper

Stephan Kepser. Finite Structure Query - A Tool for Querying Syntactically Annotated Corpora. In EACL 2003, Ann Copestake and Jan Hajic (eds.), pp. 179-186, 2003.
Paper

Stephan Kepser and Uwe Mönnich. Graph Properties of HPSG Feature Structures. In Formal Grammar 2003, Gerhard Jäger, Paola Monachesi, Gerald Penn, and Shuly Wintner (eds.), pp. 115 - 124, 2003.
Paper

Stephan Kepser and Uwe Mönnich. (Un-)Decidability Results for Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. In Proceedings Algebraic Methods in Language Processing (AMiLP-3), Giuseppe Scollo and Anton Nijholt (eds.), pp. 141-152, 2003.
Paper

Stephan Kepser and Uwe Mönnich. A Note on the Complexity of Optimality Theory. In Proceedings Algebraic Methods in Language Processing (AMiLP-3), Giuseppe Scollo and Anton Nijholt (eds.), pp. 153-166, 2003.
Paper

2002

Stephan Kepser, Uwe Mönnich, and Frank Morawietz. Model Checking Secondary Relations. In Formal Grammar 2002, Gerhard Jäger, Paola Monachesi, Gerald Penn, and Shuly Wintner (eds.), pp. 65 - 75, 2002.
Paper

2001

Klaus U. Schulz and Stephan Kepser. Combination of Constraint Solvers II: Rational Amalgamation. In Theoretical Computer Science, 266/1-2, pp. 113-157, 2001.
Abstract   Paper

Uwe Mönnich, Frank Morawietz and Stephan Kepser. A Regular Query for Context-Sensitive Relations. In IRCS Workshop Linguistic Databases 2001, Steven Bird, Peter Buneman, Mark Liberman (eds.), pp. 187-195, 2001.
Abstract   Paper

2000

Stephan Kepser. A Coalgebraic Modelling of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. In Proceedings AMiLP2000, D. Heylen, A. Nijholt, G. Scollo (eds.), pp. 81-95, 2000.
Abstract   Paper

1994 – 1999

Stephan Kepser and Jörn Richts. UniMoK: A System for Combining Equational Unification Algorithms. In Proceedings of Rewriting Techniques and Applications 1999, M. Rusinovitch and P. Narendran (eds.), pp. 248-251, Springer LNCS 1631, 1999.
Paper

Franz Baader, Klaus U. Schulz, Jörn Richts, and Stephan Kepser. Abschlussbericht an die DFG. Final project report, 1998.
Paper (available only in German.)

Stephan Kepser. Negation in Combining Constraint Systems. In Frontiers of Combining Systems 2, Papers presented at FroCoS'98. Maarten de Rijke and Dov Gabbay (eds.), Research Studies Press/Wiley, pp. 177-192, 1999.
Abstract   Paper

Stephan Kepser and Jörn Richts. Optimisation Techniques for Combining Constraint Solvers. In Frontiers of Combining Systems 2, Papers presented at FroCoS'98. Maarten de Rijke and Dov Gabbay (eds.), Research Studies Press/Wiley, pp. 193-210, 1999.
Abstract   Paper

Stephan Kepser. Combination of Constraint Systems. Ph.D. dissertation at CIS. CIS Report 98-118, 1998.
English Abstract   deutsche Zusammenfassung   full Thesis (580 Kb PS file)

Stephan Kepser and Klaus U. Schulz. Combination of Constraint Solvers II: Rational Amalgamation. in Proceedings of the second International Conference on Constraint Programming, CP-96, pp. 282-296, Springer LNCS 1118, 1996.
Abstract   Long Version

Klaus U. Schulz and Stephan Kepser. Unif'96 Extended Abstracts of the Tenth International Workshop on Unification. CIS Report 96-91, 1996.
Abstract   Full Report

Stephan Kepser. A Satisfiability Algorithm for a Typed Feature Logic. m.a. thesis. Arbeitsberichte des SFB 340, Nr. 60; 1994.
Paper


Presentation Slides

A Regular Query for Context-Sensitive Relations Workshop "Linguistic Databases", LDC, Philadelphia, USA; 11-13 December 2001.

Ein Beweis zur Turing-Vollständigkeit von XSLT Workshop "Semistructured Data", Herrsching, Germany; 21-22 February 2002.

Linguistische Datenbanken Workshop "Semistructured Data", Herrsching, Germany; 21-22 February 2002.

Model Checking Secondary Relations Formal Grammar 2002, Trento, Italia, 3.-4. August 2002.


Technical Reports

Unpublished and potentially unfinished technical reports. Comments are wellcome.

Stephan Kepser. A Landscape of Logics for Finite Unordered Unranked Trees.
Technical report, CRC 441. 16th April 2008.

Stephan Kepser. A Coalgebraic Modelling of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar.
Technical report, CRC 441. Current version dates 15.6.2000.

 


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