How grammar emerges to dampen combinatorial search in parsing

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4211 LNAI, Issue , 2006, Pages 76-88

  Steels, Luc ^a,b   Wellens, Pieter ^b  

^a SONY COMPUTER SCIENCE LABORATORY   (France)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARS; SEMANTICS; SYNTACTICS;

COMBINATORIAL SEARCH; FLUID CONSTRUCTION GRAMMAR; PARSING; SYNTACTIC PATTERNS;

FORMAL LANGUAGES;

EID: 33750300200     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11880172_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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