格值下推自动机与格值上下文无关文法

引入了格值下推自动机、格值上下文无关文法及它们的语言的概念,证明了格值下推自动机以两种不同方式接受的语言类的等价性,研究了格值Chomsky范式文法、格值上下文无关文法及其派生所产生的语言的等价条件,揭示了在一定条件下,格值下推自动机接受的语言类与格值上下文无关文法产生的语言类的等价性,证明了有理格值语言均被格值下推自动机识别。     

量化上下文无关语言的代数性质

通过引入量化下推自动机与量化上下文无关文法的定义,研究了以两种不同方式接受语言的量化下推自动机等价性问题,证明了在可交换的双幺赋值幺半群上,量化下推自动机接受的语言与量化上下文无关文法生成的语言相同。     

基于量子逻辑的自动机和文法理论

初步建立了基于量子逻辑的自动机和文法理论的基本框架.引入了量子文法(称为l值文法),特别是证明了任意l值正规文法生成的语言(称为量子语言)等价于某种基于量子逻辑且含动作(的自动机(称为l值自动机)识别的语言,反之,任意l值自动机识别的语言等价于某l值正规文法生成的语言.建立了l值泵引理,并得到量子语言的判定性刻画.最后简要讨论了正规文法与量子文法(即l值正规文法)的关系.因此,为进一步研究更复杂的量子自动机(如量子下推自动机和Turing机)和量子文法(如量子上下文无关文法和上下文有关文法)奠定了基础.     

格值交替树自动机

交替（树）自动机因其本身关于取补运算的简洁性及其与非确定型（树）自动机的等价性,成为自动机与模型检测领域研究的一个新方向.在格值交替自动机与经典交替树自动机概念的基础上,引入格值交替树自动机的概念,并研究了格值交替树自动机的代数封闭性和表达能力.首先,证明了对格值交替树自动机的转移函数取对偶运算,终止权重取补之后所得自动机与原自动机接受语言互补这一结论.其次,证明了格值交替树自动机关于交、并运算的封闭性.最后,讨论了格值交替树自动机和格值树自动机、格值非确定型自动机的表达能力;证明了格值交替树自动机与格值树自动机的等价性,并给出了二者相互转化的算法及其复杂度分析;同时,提供了用格值非确定型自动机来模拟格值交替树自动机的方法.     

一种基于同步树替换文法的统计机器翻译模型

提出一种基于同步树替换文法的机器翻译模型.相对于基于短语的模型,此模型可以对远距离结构性调序和非连续短语翻译进行建模;相对于基于同步上下文无关文法模型,此模型可以对任何层次上的树节点调序进行建模.因此,该模型可以为处理语言结构间的异构对应问题提供有效的解决途径. 在两组风格差异较大的数据集上进行的实验均验证了基于同步树替换文法的模型相对于基于短语模型和基于同步上下文无关文法模型的稳定优势.     

基于量子逻辑的下推自动机与上下文无关文法

给出基于量子逻辑的下推自动机(e-VPDA)的概念,提出广义的子集构造方法,进而证明了一般的e-VPDA与状态转移为分明函数且具有量子终态的e-VPDA的等价性.利用此等价性,给出了量子上下文无关语言的代数刻画与层次刻画,并籍此证明了量子上下文无关语言关于正则运算的封闭性.最后,说明了量子下推自动机和量子上下文无关文法(e-VCFG)的等价性.     

二元文法

在正规文法的基础上,通过增加一个约束变量集合,给出了二元文法的定义,证明了二元文法与袋自动机的等价性,定义了平衡推导、递增推导、递减推导和传递推导,证明了它们与不变重复序列、增重复序列、减重复序列和传递重复序列之间的关系,并且给出判定一个二元文法所产生语言（袋语言）分别是正规语言、上下文无关语言或上下文文有关语言的充分条件。     

基于完备剩余格值逻辑的自动机和文法理论

初步建立基于完备剩余格值逻辑自动机与文法理论的基本框架。引入l值正则文法的概念,证明了任意l值自动机识别的语言等价于某种l值正则文法所生成的语言,反之,任意l值正则文法所生成的语言等价于某种l值自动机识别的语言。获得l值自动机及被l值自动机识别的语言的连接问题刻画。特别地,建立l值和L值泵引理,并得到l值语言的判定性刻画。最后,揭示带ε移动的l值自动机与不带ε移动的l值自动机之间的两个等价关系。     

推导可交换上下文无关语言

提出了推导可交换上下文无关语言及其文法,证明了正规语言类和有界上下文无关语言类都是推导可交换上下文无关语言类的子集,而推导可交换上下文无关语言类是上下文无关语言类的一个子集;定义了该类语言的α闭包等有关运算,给出了推导可交换上下文无关语言表达式,证明了推导可交换上下文无关文法、推导可交换上下文无关语言表达式之间的等价转换.     

量子上下文无关文法的代数性质

提出了量子上下文无关文法（l-VCFG）的概念,并研究了其具有的代数性质;证明了量子上下文无关文法（l-VCFG）和Chomsky范式文法（l-VCNF）以及Greibach范式文法（l-VGNF）的相互等价性;详细研究了量子上下文无关语言的代数刻画以及对于正则运算的封闭性。     

Closure properties of linear context-free tree languages with an application to optimality theory

Context-free tree grammars, originally introduced by Rounds [Math. Systems Theory 4(3) (1970) 257–287], are powerful grammar devices for the definition of tree languages. The properties of the class of context-free tree languages have been studied for more than three decades now. Particularly important here is the work by Engelfriet and Schmidt [J. Comput. System Sci. 15(3) (1977) 328–353, 16(1) (1978) 67–99]. In the present paper, we consider a subclass of the class of context-free tree languages, namely the class of linear context-free tree languages. A context-free tree grammar is linear, if no rule permits the copying of subtrees. For this class of linear context-free tree languages we show that the grammar derivation mode, which is very important for the general class of context-free tree languages, is immaterial. The main result we present is the closure of the class of linear context-free tree languages under linear frontier-to-root tree transduction mappings. Two further results are the closure of this class under linear root-to-frontier tree transduction mappings and under intersection with regular tree languages.     

Linearity and nondeletion on monadic context-free tree grammars

In this paper, subclasses of monadic context-free tree grammars (CFTGs) are compared. Since linear, nondeleting, monadic CFTGs generate the same class of string languages as tree adjoining grammars (TAGs), it is examined whether the restrictions of linearity and nondeletion on monadic CFTGs are necessary to generate the same class of languages.     

一种上下文无关语言语法树的存储模式及其应用

针对上下文无关语言的句子所对应的语法树G树的表示形式提出了一种关系数据库的存储形式.这种存储形式的优点是：表示形式一致;句子分析简单;语句执行速度快.这种存储形式作为一种上下文无关语言的中间语言的形式可以直接交付解释器（抽象机）执行.同时介绍基于这种表示形式的上下文无关句子的编辑器.编辑器是基于Web的交互式语法制导生成方式实现的.这种表示与存储形式被用于一种描述过程性知识的函数式语言.     

一种特殊的上下文无关文法及其语法分析

SAQ系统是一个进行软件规约获取、检验和复用的实验系统，其中以上下文无关文法表示的概念是规约的一部分.SAQ要求将概念的词法和句法定义结合在一个上下文无关文法中.如果用常规的上下文无关文法描述诸如程序设计语言和自然语言等一些复杂概念的语法，则需要把诸如空格和回车等没有实质意义的分隔符包含到语法中去(这种描述方法称为朴素表示法),使得语法描述很累赘.为此，作者设计了一种特殊的上下文无关文法,它把通常上下文无关文法定义中的非终极符集合和终极符集合进行细化.用这种文法可以相对简洁地描述程序语言和自然语言等复杂概     

The Equivalence of Tree Adjoining Grammars and Monadic Linear Context-free Tree Grammars

The equivalence of leaf languages of tree adjoining grammars and monadic linear context-free grammars was shown about a decade ago. This paper presents a proof of the strong equivalence of these grammar formalisms. Non-strict tree adjoining grammars and monadic linear context-free grammars define the same class of tree languages. We also present a logical characterisation of this tree language class showing that a tree language is a member of this class iff it is the two-dimensional yield of an MSO-definable three-dimensional tree language.     

Tree kernel-based semantic relation extraction with rich syntactic and semantic information

This paper proposes a novel tree kernel-based method with rich syntactic and semantic information for the extraction of semantic relations between named entities. With a parse tree and an entity pair, we first construct a rich semantic relation tree structure to integrate both syntactic and semantic information. And then we propose a context-sensitive convolution tree kernel, which enumerates both context-free and context-sensitive sub-trees by considering the paths of their ancestor nodes as their contexts to capture structural information in the tree structure. An evaluation on the Automatic Content Extraction/Relation Detection and Characterization (ACE RDC) corpora shows that the proposed tree kernel-based method outperforms other state-of-the-art methods.     

Tree controlled grammars

Languages are studied which can be generated by context-free grammars under a single simple restriction which must be satisfied by its derivation trees. Using tree controlled grammars (TC grammars for short) all unambigous and some inherently ambigous context-free languages, and also some non context-free languages can be parsed in timeO(n ²). The classes of regular, linear, context-free, EOL, ETOL and type 0 languages can be characterized in a natural manner using TC grammars. A context-free generator for all type 0 languages is exhibited. Some normal forms for TC grammars are established but it is shown that many common normal forms (e. g. Greibach normal form) cannot be obtained for TC grammars in general.     

Spinal-Formed Context-Free Tree Grammars

In this paper we introduce a restricted model of context-free tree grammars called spine grammars, and study their formal properties including considerably simple normal forms. Recent research on natural languages has suggested that formalisms for natural languages need to generate a slightly larger class of languages than context-free grammars, and for that reason tree adjoining grammars have been widely studied relating them to natural languages. It is shown that the class of string languages generated by spine grammars coincides with that of tree adjoining grammars. We also introduce acceptors called linear pushdown tree automata, and show that linear pushdown tree automata accept exactly the class of tree languages generated by spine grammars. Linear pushdown tree automata are obtained from pushdown tree automata with a restriction on duplicability for the pushdown stacks. Received May 29, 1998, and in revised form April 27, 1999, and in final form May 10, 1999.     

An NC algorithm for recognizing tree adjoining languages

A parallel algorithm is presented for recognizing the class of languages generated by tree adjoining grammars, a tree rewriting system which has applications in natural language processing. This class of languages is known to properly include all context-free languages; for example, the noncontext-free sets {a ⁿ b ⁿ c ⁿ } and {ww} are in this class. It is shown that the recognition problem for tree adjoining languages can be solved by a concurrent read, concurrent write parallel random-access machine (CRCW PRAM) inO(logn) time using polynomially many processors. Thus, the class of tree adjoining languages is inAC ¹ and hence inNC. This extends a previous result for context-free languages.This research was supported in part by NSF Grants IRI 92-96249, MCS 82-19116-CER, MCS 82-07294, DCR 84-10413, MCS 83-05221, ARO Grant DAA29-84-9-0027, DARPA Grant N00014-85-K-0018, and by the New Jersey Institute of Technology under Grant Nos. 421690 and 211665.     

Inference of a class of CFPG by means of semantic rules

An important property of Context-Free Programmed Grammars (CFPG) is that some context-sensitive Languages can be generated by CFPG. To infer a special class of CFPG for syntactic pattern recognition is the motivation of this paper. First an one-dimensional string is transformed into a corresponding binary tree. Then in terms of the structure of subtrees, and the semantic rules corresponding to the context-free productions, a method for the inference of Context-free Programmed Grammar is presented. Inference of Stochastic Context-Free Programmed Grammar (STCFPG) by the maximum-likelihood estimate approach is also discussed.This work was supported in part by the NSF Grant ECS 78-16970.