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Syntactic parsing is an important task in natural language processing (NLP). In this chapter an application of semiring theory in parsing (a.k.a.”semiring parsing”) will be introduced. A semiring parsing framework is proposed and studied in [6].
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Liu, Y. (2012). Semiring Parsing. In: Fuzzy Semirings with Applications to Automata Theory. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 278. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27641-5_10
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