15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  July 21-26 2002     Lyon     France  
   

ECAI-2002 Conference Paper

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Parsing Natural Language using Guided Local Search

Michael Daum, Wolfgang Menzel

In this paper an application of guided local search (GLS) to the problem of natural language parsing is presented. The given parsing approach is situated in a constraint based parsing paradigm that allows natural language processing in a robust and resource adaptive way. Some extensions of GLS are introduced, most notably a multi-threaded search where a couple of agents cooperate with each other in parallel, showing synergetic effects. The resulting algorithm is compared to competing techniques within the framework of weighted constraint dependency grammars. An experimental evaluation shows GLS being on par with similar approaches.

Keywords: Natural Language Processing, Constraint Satisfaction, Search, Meta-Heuristics for AI

Citation: Michael Daum, Wolfgang Menzel: Parsing Natural Language using Guided Local Search. In F. van Harmelen (ed.): ECAI2002, Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2002, pp.435-439.


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ECAI-2002 is organised by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) and hosted by the Université Claude Bernard and INSA, Lyon, on behalf of Association Française pour l'Intelligence Artificielle.