Feature Unification

Patti: Compiling Unification-Based Finite-State Automata to PowerPC Machine Instructions

Presentation of the core ideas, September 1999

Talk given at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (Yorktown Heights, NY, USA); Lucent Bell Labs (Murray Hill, NJ, USA); Xerox PARC (Palo Alto, CA, USA); Saarland University (Saarbrücken, Germany); University Zürich (Switzerland)

Presentation available in PDF Format

Abstract

Describes the core ideas of Sascha Brawer’s diploma thesis, a method for speeding up natural-language analysis using a novel compilation technique.