Preface v
1 Parallel Natural Language Processing: Background and Overview 1
Udo Hahn and Geert Adriaens
2 Parallel Approaches to Context-Free Language Parsing 135
Anton Nijholt
3 Parallel Parsers for Context-Free Grammars- Two Actual Implementations Compared 168
Henry S. Thompson
4 Object-Oriented Parallel Parsing for Context-Free Grammars 188
Akinori Yonezawa and Ichiro Ohsawa
5 Context-Free Parsing in Connectionist Networks 211
Mark Fanty
6 Parsing as an Energy Minimization Problem 238
Bart Selman and Graeme Hirst
7 Getting Structure from Subsymbolic Interactions 255
Jon M. Slack
8 Process Independence and Concurrency in a Model of Sentence Understanding 285
Kurt P. Eiselt and Richard H. Granger, Jr.
9 An Actor Model of Distributed Natural Language Parsing 307
Udo Hahn
10 The Parallel Expert Parser 350
Mark Devos and Geert Adriaens
11 A Parallel Model for Compositional Similarity of Natural Language Concepts 376
Stefan Wermter and Wendy G. Lehnert
12 A Connectionist Approach to Generation of Simple Sentences and Word Choice 395
Jugal Kalita and Lokendra Shastri
13 Parallelism in Incremental Sentence Generation 421
Koenraad J.M.J. De Smedt
Author Index 449
Subject Index 461
