dr. Gordon PACE
University of Malta
Malta
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Monadic Compositional Parsing with Context for Natural Languages
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ABSTRACT
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Combinator-based parsing using functional programming provides 
an elegant, and compositional approach to parser design and development. 
By its very nature, sensitivity to context usually fails to be properly 
addressed in these approaches. In this talk, we will identify 
two techniques to deal with context compositionally, particularly 
suited for natural language parsing. To enable efficient and 
compositional parsing, we will show how standard monadic parser 
combinators can be modified to deal with reverse parsing. 
As case studies, we will show how these new combinators can be used 
to parse simple Maltese phrases.
          
SHORT CV
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Dr. Gordon Pace is a lecturer in the Computer Science and AI department 
of the University of Malta. He was previously based in Chalmers University, 
Gothenburg in Sweden, INRIA-Rhone Alpes in France and 
Laboratoire Verimag also in France. His main research interests lie in 
formal methods for software and hardware design, embedded languages, 
synchronous languages and semantics of programming languages.

URL http://www.cs.um.edu.mt/gordon.pace