ITRI-97-02
Roger Evans and David Weir 

"Automaton-based Parsing for Lexicalized Grammars"
Also published in Proc. Fifth International Workshop on 
Parsing Technologies, Cambridge, Mass.

In wide-coverage lexicalized grammars many of the elementary
structures have substructures in common.  This means that during
parsing some of the computation associated with different structures
is duplicated.  This paper explores ways in which the grammar can be
precompiled into finite state automata so that some of this shared
structure results in shared computation at run-time