A Model Eliminative Treatment of

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Niveau: Secondaire, Lycée, Terminale
A Model Eliminative Treatment of Quantier-Free Tree Des riptions Denys Du hier Programming System Lab, Universitat des Saarlandes, Saarbru ken du hierps.uni-sb.de Abstra t Tree des riptions are widely used in omputational linguisti s for talking and reasoning about trees. For pra ti al appli ations, it is essential to be able to de ide satisability and enumerate solutions eÆ iently. This hallenge annot realisti ally be met by brute for e enumeration. However it an be addressed very ee tively by onstraint propagation as provided by modern onstraint te hnology. Previously, we studied the onjun tive fragment of tree des riptions and showed how the problem of nding minimal models of a onjun tive tree des ription ould be transformed into a onstraint satisfa tion problem (CSP) on nite set variables. In this paper, we extend our a ount to the fragment that admits both negation and disjun - tion, but still leaves out quanti ation. Again we provide a redu tion to a CSP. While our previous en oding introdu ed the reader to set onstraints and disjun tive propagators, we now extend our arsenal with sele tion propagators. 1 Introdu tion In omputational linguisti s, theories are frequently on erned with the formulation of onstraints or prin iples restri ting the admissibility of tree representations.

• sele tion


• admits both


• between basi onstraints


• onstraint


• basi onstraints


• fun tion symbol


• onstraint satis

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• Publié par: profil-zyan-2012
• Nombre de lectures: 42
• Langue: English

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