Connectivity in Bag Generation

Abstract

This paper presents a pruning technique which can be used to reduce the number of paths searched in rule-based bag generators of the type proposed by \cite{poznanskietal95} and \cite{popowich95}. Pruning the search space in these generators is important given the computational cost of bag generation. The technique relies on a connectivity constraint between the semantic indices associated with each lexical sign in a bag. Testing the algorithm on a range of sentences shows reductions in the generation time and the number of edges constructed.