Spotting Overgeneration Suspects

Claire Gardent (1) , Eric Kow (1)

1 TALARIS - Natural Language Processing: representation, inference and semantics

We present a method for quickly spotting overgeneration suspects (i.e., likely cause of overgeneration) in hand-coded grammars. The method is applied to a medium size Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) for French and is shown to help reduce the number of outputs by 70% almost all of it being overgeneration.

Mots clés: Overgeneration; grammar; debugging; TAG; surface realisation

Domaines: Informatique et langage [cs.CL]

Claire Gardent, Eric Kow. Spotting Overgeneration Suspects. 11th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation - ENLG'07, Jun 2007, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. pp.41-48. ⟨inria-00149372⟩