{"title":"LFG Generation from Acyclic F-Structures is NP-Hard","authors":"Jürgen Wedekind, R. Kaplan","doi":"10.1162/coli_a_00419","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The universal generation problem for LFG grammars is the problem of determining whether a given grammar derives any terminal string with a given f-structure. It is known that this problem is decidable for acyclic f-structures. In this brief note, we show that for those f-structures the problem is nonetheless intractable. This holds even for grammars that are off-line parsable.","PeriodicalId":55229,"journal":{"name":"Computational Linguistics","volume":"47 1","pages":"939-946"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7000,"publicationDate":"2021-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Computational Linguistics","FirstCategoryId":"94","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1162/coli_a_00419","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Abstract The universal generation problem for LFG grammars is the problem of determining whether a given grammar derives any terminal string with a given f-structure. It is known that this problem is decidable for acyclic f-structures. In this brief note, we show that for those f-structures the problem is nonetheless intractable. This holds even for grammars that are off-line parsable.
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Computational Linguistics, the longest-running publication dedicated solely to the computational and mathematical aspects of language and the design of natural language processing systems, provides university and industry linguists, computational linguists, AI and machine learning researchers, cognitive scientists, speech specialists, and philosophers with the latest insights into the computational aspects of language research.