Jan W. Amtrup

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Jan W. Amtrup (1992)
"Parallele Strukturanalyse Natürlicher Sprache mit Transputern."
ASL-TR 44-92/UHH. Univ. of Hamburg.
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Abstract

In this paper I describe the theoretical basis and implementaion of tp, a parallel parsing system for natural language utterances utilizing a unification-based PATR grammar. The system realizes two possible parallelization schemes that are supposed for the chart data structure. A bidirectional analysis is done on a multi-transputer system which is configured to form a ringlike topology. With some examples, I will show that syntax analysis is basically suitable for parallelization. Especially if one considers the high requirements that are drawn on a parser when analyzing speech, the chosen method seems to be appropriate.