Title
On the Complexity of CCG Parsing.
Abstract
We study the parsing complexity of Combinatory Categorial Grammar CCG in the formalism of Vijay-Shanker and Weir 1994. As our main result, we prove that any parsing algorithm for this formalism will take in the worst case exponential time when the size of the grammar, and not only the length of the input sentence, is included in the analysis. This sets the formalism of Vijay-Shanker and Weir 1994 apart from weakly equivalent formalisms such as Tree Adjoining Grammar, for which parsing can be performed in time polynomial in the combined size of grammar and input sentence. Our results contribute to a refined understanding of the class of mildly context-sensitive grammars, and inform the search for new, mildly context-sensitive versions of CCG.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1162/coli_a_00324
Computational Linguistics
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
abs/1702.06594
3
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0891-2017
0
0.34
References 
Authors
17
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marco Kuhlmann130923.06
Giorgio Satta290290.85
Peter Jonsson3236.80