... of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 316–324,Uppsala, Sweden, 11-16 July 2010.c2010 Association for Computational LinguisticsDiscriminative Pruning for Discriminative ... ITG. For instance, there are two parses for three consecutive word pairs, viz. [/ [/ /] ] and [[/ /] /] . The problem of re-dundancy is fixed by adopting ITG normal form. ... normal form is the very first key to speed-ing up ITG. The ITG normal form grammar as used in this paper is described in Appendix A. 3 Basics of ITG Parsing Based on the rules in normal form,...