Abstract

We propose an algorithm for computing the N best vertices in a weighted acyclic hypergraph over a nice semiring. A semiring is nice if it is finitely-generated, idempotent, and has 1 as its minimal element. We then apply the algorithm to the problem of computing the N best trees with respect to a weighted tree automaton, and complement theoretical correctness and complexity arguments with experimental data. The algorithm has several practical applications in natural language processing, for example, to derive the N most likely parse trees with respect to a probabilistic context-free grammar.

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