Thin Parsing: A Balance between Wide Scale Parsing and Chunking
Jon David Patrick, Pham Hong Nguyen · 2004
This work presents a type of parser that takes the process of chunking to the stage of producing full parse trees. This type of parser, denoted Thin Parsers (TP) in this work has the characteristics of: following a given grammar, creating full parse trees, producing only a limited number of full parse trees, parsing in linear time of sentence length. Performance standards on the Penn Tree Bank show results slightly under that of stochastic parsers but faster performance. Various types of Thin Parsers are presented.