ON THE COMPLEXITY OF GRAMMARS.

Abstract

Grammars are categorized according to the type of the set of all derivations of elements of the language of the grammar. In particular, it is shown that a grammar has a regular set of derivations (is simple if and only if the grammar is nonterminal bounded). Also it is shown that a language is simple if and only if it is meta-linear. Finally, it is shown that for a context-free grammar the set of derivations is always context-sensitive but may not be context-free. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0683296

Entities

People

  • Arthur C. Fleck

Organizations

  • University of Iowa

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Automata
  • Context Free Grammars
  • Grammars
  • Language

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  • Computational Linguistics