How to Demonstrate Metalinearness and Regularity by Tree-Restricted General Grammars

Autor: Havel, Martin, Křivka, Zbyněk, Meduna, Alexander
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: EPTCS 407, 2024, pp. 86-99
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.4204/EPTCS.407.7
Popis: This paper introduces derivation trees for general grammars. Within these trees, it defines context-dependent pairs of nodes, corresponding to rewriting two neighboring symbols using a non context-free rule. It proves that the language generated by a linear core general grammar with a slow-branching derivation tree is k-linear if there is a constant u such that every sentence w in the generated language is the frontier of a derivation tree in which any pair of neighboring paths contains u or fewer context-dependent pairs of nodes. Next, it proves that the language generated by a general grammar with a regular core is regular if there is a constant u such that every sentence w in the generated language is the frontier of a derivation tree in which any pair of neighboring paths contains u or fewer context-dependent pairs of nodes. The paper explains that this result is a powerful tool for showing that certain languages are k-linear or regular.
Comment: In Proceedings NCMA 2024, arXiv:2409.06120
Databáze: arXiv