Frank Morawietz
Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft
Theoretische Computerlinguistik
 
Neuphilologische Fakultät
Universität Tübingen

Frank Morawietz and Tom Cornell

"Approximating Principles and Parameters Grammars with MSO Tree Logics"


Extended abstract, 4pp., DVI (28kb); Postscript (225kb)1-up; Postscript gzip-komprimiert (64kb) 1-up , 2-up.

Abstract

The decidability proof for weak MSO logic on two successor functions (WS2S) involves the compilation of MSO formulas into tree automata. While it is not possible to get beyond context-freeness with WS2S, we show how to approximate P&P grammars by parameterizing the compilation process with a particular input. The embedding into a CLP scheme is proposed to overcome some of the inherent engineering problems.


Appears in the Proceedings of the LACL Conference '97, 1997

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