Constraint Dependency Grammar and Its Weak Generative Capacity

Summary In order to represent a combinatorial number of syntactically ambiguous parse trees efficiently, we have developed a grammatical theory called constraint dependency grammar. In this paper, the formal definition of constraint dependency grammar and its weak generative capacity are discussed. We show that the weak generative capacity of constraint dependency grammars with arity = 2, degree = 2 is strictly greater than that of context-free grammars.